Dd1 having night-mares, anxiety atacks

[Marne]

Dd1 (4.10) is having night-mares , im not sure if its related to her Aspergers but the dreams seem to be link to thinkgs that she gers anxious about.

Last night she didn't want to go to sleep incase she had a bad dream

She tells me what the dreams are about, the most common one is that the pc has broken and she cant get it to work (this may not seem like a night-mare to us but dd loves the pc and if anything doesn't work she goes mad), the other one is that she can't flush the toilet (she has had alot of toilet issues and can't flush the toilet).

I know these dreams may sound odd (and not scairy) but to dd1 they are very upsetting.

How can i help her?

I'd try a 'social story' type of thing with her, in which she rewrites the dream so it has a good ending (whilst she's awake). If she knows how to solve the problems, e.g. come and get you if the loo doesn't flush, maybe get a book about how loos work so she can see that it's quite simple and know more about it that way. Or know that someone will get a computer expert to fix the computer if it doesn't work (or that she can use a friend's one, or a library one etc for a while) she may settle more. You may have thought about all of these things, of course.

Does she sleep in a room with a little bit of light, and enough weight of covers on her (we often can't settle well under very light sheets etc), with very very non-scratchy nightwear and sheets? It may help to settle her more?