My child’s dream freaking me out

[Almostforgotfathersday]

My daughter, 5, has had bad dreams on and off since Autumn, she’s happy and I am
assuming it’s just a phase as friends say the same at this age for their children too.
Dd often comes into bed if she’s having a bad dream and we cuddle her back to sleep, it happened last night and I thought nothing more of it.
This morning she told me she had a bad dream, that I was in it and had two children, girls and they were the same as me (looked like me) they said they were playing on a rope swing and I was knitting and knitting (I only knitted as a child with my nana)
She then looked upset and said she didn’t want to say the last part, but then said that I died and she woke up 😔She said I wasn’t there anymore and she thinks the dream was next Sunday. I asked where her dad was and she said he wasn’t there.
I realise it’s only a dream, but I’ve been thinking about it all day and feel strange.
Dd doesn’t look like me at all, different hair colouring and type of hair, different skin etc, just doesn’t look like me (which is great really as she’s beautiful!)

Ive had many losers, one an emergency ectopic and a miscarriage. I once visited a fortune teller type person who told me I’d have *Another girl (i only have Dd) and the month she’d be born (she was correct)
I know it sounds silly and ridiculous, but is this a strange thing for a 5 year old to say/dream about? Or quite usual?

*Losses

Oh OP, I understand why this has rattled you, and I'm so sorry for your losses.

If it helps, DD (6) has said many slightly odd things over the years but nothing untoward has happened. Also, I used to have very vivid dreams as a child (still do) some of which were frightening and involved bad things happening to me or loved ones. It was just my brain trying to make sense of things I was far too little to understand. I don't believe dreams tell us anything other than what is already in our heads, so I would try not to worry and just reassure your daughter (and yourself) that everything is okay.

I agree. Dreams can be unnerving, especially when we look at them closely and see coincidental similarities or apparent correlations, but there's no reason to believe that this dream holds any more weight or value than any of her other, everyday dreams.

It is unnerving but I'm the realms of normal I would say. DS2 used to tell us all about his family he had before he died and came to our family. He would say things like "The mum in my old family used to plant vegetables" or "when I was in my other family I had a sister not a brother"

I have very vivid dreams that seem very real but I promise that none of them have ever come true.

My friends daughter did this when she was 5 and said mummy you are going to heaven because I had a dream that was going to happen. Freaked my friend out but she is still here 13 years later

Thanks everyone,

My daughter is fine and hasn’t mentioned it since, it’s me that keeps thinking about it. She’s had similar before, but it was very basic as in a monster came to get me and so on. This just seemed so detailed and the part about me having daughters who looked like me, she never says things like that, just seems quite weird.