3 year old and nightmares HELP

[Stargazing2305]

Hi all so my DD is 3 years old she started pre school 3 weeks ago and for the past 2 weeks she keeps waking up crying saying she is scared to go to sleep she will not settle back at all awful to watch she has real fear in her eyes she ends up getting into bed with me and I have to spend ages reassuring her! I’ve discussed it with her in the day and she says she is scared of monsters I’ve tried the magic dream spray and chanting bad dreams go away good dreams only and I’ve done the whole monster spray but with no avail!

Last night she was trying to keep herself awake as she said she didn’t want to go to sleep because she was too scared!

Any tips will be very welcomed like I said she’s only started doing this since starting pre school so I’m not sure if it’s all the change of routine or if she’s talking to peers about monsters

Thanks

Has she seen a programme or read a story about monsters?it could be that my DD had same issue got to route of it-it was a book at nursery that her over active imagination had reinacted!if it's not that not too sure sorry....

Hypnotherapy can help

Have you tried getting her a dream catcher? Simple but worked for my daughter...explained to her that it would catch bad dreams and only let good ones through....also we bought it in a hippy type shop,that due to the large amount of incense being burned, she believed was a "real" magic shop!

I used to have nightmares that Superman was beating me up when I was a little, my mum told me to get Wonder Woman along to beat him up and it weirdly worked. One kid I looked after had nightmares a lot and started to have them about Medusa so I tried the same thing with getting Perseus along to save the day. It was helpful that there was a lot we could read about, there was a lot of chat about what happened and prompting him to retell the story and it worked after a couple of nights.

Maybe watch monsters inc .? Monsters aren’t really scary ? Laugh a lot
Other than that, keep an eye out on what she is watching, who might be telling her stories about monsters etc, and get them to stop.

Ask at pre school, if they have stories about monsters, role play ?