Nightmares

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My 6 year old DD has nightmares. It's always about someone stealing our cat or someone hurting her or our eldest dd. She's very good at going back to sleep after a cuddle and chat. She loves sleep. She goes to bed at 7 as she's very tired after school. She sometimes reads before bed which I hope helps to put her in a nice relaxing mood.

She's also started to not want to go upstairs in her own as she's convinced someone is up there and she thinks she can hear noises :-( this has been since she was at her cousins house and she watched a bit of the hunger games. I am very angry about that but can't do anything about it now. She knows it's not real and we've spoken about the film. She watches things like victorious , Jessie and I Carley after school which aren't scary at all.

Has anyone ever been to the doctors with this before?

I'm going to start a whole new bedtime routine and buy her a new bed (she needs one anyway) can anyone suggest anything else?

I dont know if thisll help but when my brother was small (now29) he had a similar thing about going upstairs and every evening after school wed all go upstairs and 'check' the rooms then mum would leave the landing light on and he had a dim light on in his room all night making it all 'safe' no monsters wed have seen them if they were there.

Then mum encouraged him upstairs over time by asking him to get stuff for her jumpers pjs etc.

Yeah I ask her to pop upstairs and get things for me as I thought it would help her build her confidence. She hates having a light on so I don't think that would work. Their tv has a tiny light when on standby and she makes me cover it up so its pitch black in the room.

Will do the after school check in all the rooms to see if that helps, thank you.

So shes not bothered by the dark thats good.
Maby letting her help/go to shop with you when you pick her new too might help
What about a dream catcher (I know its a bit wooo but your dd might be convinced by it) theyre ment to catch bad dreams etc.

Hiya, My daughter had terrible nightmares - up 7 x a night screaming and wouldn't be left alone. I had tremedous results with Indigo Essence (like bach flower remedies) Sleepeasy spray. I blogged about it here. Hope you get it sorted. Best wishes and good luck. mydaughterwontsleep.com/2014/03/13/does-your-child-have-nightmares/