3 year old dds recurring nightmare

[Boco]

3 year old dd has woken up screaming every night for 3 nights, saying that dd1 is in a fire and can't get out. DD1 then wakes up and is really freaked out too.

TV is really only restricted to cbeebies and the odd peppa pig dvd, I don't know where the fire thing has come from, but she's properly distressed and shaking. She doesn't seem to remember it or want to talk about it in the morning.

Anyone had similar or any ideas what to do?

I HATE being left in unanswered threads all by myself. Even if it is a spectacularly dull post.

You're going to make me look up nightmares in the archives aren't you.

I should have pimped up my title shouldn't I? Put some OMG!'s. Meh.

Poor little mite.
No advice (great help eh!) but i hope you get some and no more nightmares.

I believe it's very common at about the age of 3 or 4. Growing dreams or something. Sorry to be so vague! I actually remember having them myself at about 4 - a recurring horrible dream about the wolf from the three little pigs, and my DD who is 4 had lots of recurring bad dreams a few months ago. I guess I'm just saying it's normal, and a growing process - something to do with the brain developing maybe? - and it doesn't last too long. I do remember being terrified myself though. I just took my DD into bed with me when she woke up scared. Lots of love and reassurance, that's my advice.

Can you talk to her about giving either her or dd1 some special things so that she can't get hurt in a dream? A dream catcher or maybe a magic key so that she will never be trapped anywhere in a dream. I always found with mine that they key was to take their fears seriously and give them the means to overcome them.

Good luck!

Thanks, key and dream catcher nice ideas.

I do remember dd1 who is now 5 having bad dreams, but there's something about this one, the fact that it's so terrifying and the same every time - being trapped in a fire is awful and I've no idea where she'd have got that from.

I'm going away for 3 nights tonight - the longest I've left her - and really not that long, but I suppose just worrying that it'll keep happening and dp not so good at the soothing calming thing.

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hey boco my ds then 3 began having nightmares saying he could see zombies and we have absolutely no idea where he got that from we never even say that word its not a word you use in everyday conversations .it was very upsetting for us all what i found helped was putting our dd 5months in the same room as him and that gave him comfort that he wasnt alone . we would even have to inspect the bedroom for zombies before he would settle down .
it became such a problem at one stage we took him to gp she put him on a mediction called phenergans and said it would knock him out and you know what it sent him hyper instead lovely!!!