dd says her bed is 'tilting like a swing'

[Aranea]

5yo dd1 is miserable this evening because she feels as though her bed is moving. She says it's tilting like a swing. She particularly hates swings, as she overperceives movement in any case so I imagine this is really horrible for her.

Does anyone have any idea what it could be and what I can do to help her? Might it be an inner ear thing? It isn't constant, just keeps happening occasionally. She thought it might help to be propped up rather than lying flat, but then it happened again.

I would get her checked by the doc. Deffo sounds like there is an inner ear thing going on!

If it's still going on in the morning I will definitely take her to the GP. In the meantime is there anything that would help? Should I try travel sickness tablets?

Inner ear.

If she hates swings, that might also be a background reason. Is she also a roundabout puker?

Does she drink enough? It's been a hot day and she may have dried out a bit and had that affect her inner ear fluid. A drink might help her a bit tonight.

Then the doc to check out for ear infection.

Oh, that's interesting about fluids. She is terrible about forgetting to drink during the day at school. Thank you for that - she has a drink by her bed so I will encourage her to drink.

I also thought dehydration when I read this.

I used to have this as a child too, particularly when I was very tired. I think it was just some weird sensory distortion.

I had one of those 'just me, then?' moments once with a group of people when I went 'you know when you're tired and it feels like your bed is moving to a vertical position...?'. And they all went silent and tumbleweeds blew across the room. Ho hum. It didn't particularly come back or carry on for a long time.

Pixie - yes my first thought was that used to occassionally happen to me as a child.

However, my wife has a severe inner ear problem that means she cannot balance and she feel sdizzy laying down sometimes so that is also a distinct possibility.

Ooh, I used to get this as a child too! I quite liked it though.

I was going to suggest just tiredness.

The ear thing's interesting though.

I got this, too. But I liked it. I thought it was just a sensation linked to totally relaxing.

I used to get this as well, although it would feel to me as though I was spinning on a roundabout.

In fact, I still get it sometimes...stupid inner ear..

do any of you feel seasick when bouncing on a trampoline?

I can feel seasick just thinking about feeling seasick!

How interesting! I hope it isn't going to be an ongoing thing, though, as she found it quite distressing. She was convinced that a creature had crept under her bed to make her feel bad, and that she had some terrible physical complaint (actually to be specific she thought that she had broken her leg, had caught a germ of some sort, and was now internally haemorrhaging . It would be funny if she hadn't been so scared! Bloody 5yo hypochondriac)

she was fully awake, just a bit neurotic! I don't think it would qualify as a night terror, just a rather anxious and overimaginative child. She was putting together bits of information she had heard about an elderly lady's health and doing a bit of self-diagnosis based on very limited medical information!

lol
please tell me she's not likely to keep doing this throughout her childhood! Or maybe I should just make sure she is better informed about very minor ailments.

I used to feel like the whole room had gone "big" as I was falling asleep. It was really disconcerting. I haven't had it in absolute years though.

It did come on and off throughout my childhood, but I think I got used to it, although I always found it weird.