Anyone have a 3-6 year old or older who has very vivid dreams?

Question

I have a soon to be 6 year old who has been having very vivid dreams since about the age of 3. At first we thought it was night terrors but it is not as severe as night terrors. Most of the time the dreams are just ways of reliving a situation that occurred that day, such as getting into an argument over a toy. Sometimes he will talk or yell in his sleep at the person he is dreaming about. I recently spoke to a child therapist who thinks it may be a mild form of a sensory perception disorder where his emotional sense is more sensitive and so some emotions may cause anxiety. Again, he does not lose sleep, he is very social and doing very well in school. I'm just looking for other people whose child may have something similar because I have never heard of anyone else with this issue.

Answer 1

dreams are based on your day. sorry, i don't have the situation but it's probably okay. i get vivid dreams too sometimes. i think most people get them occasionally. hope i could help.

Answer 2

My son did have night terrors so I know what those are, but also had vivid dreams. Anytime he got in trouble he would dream about it and sometimes wake up crying or needing attention. I think we all work out stuff by dreaming and a child is no different. The night terrors go away, and the troubling dreams go away eventually as well. The thing I always told myself when my child was growing up was to never over think or make a big deal out of things unless it became a health issue, and your child sounds fine....

Answer 3

Sounds like she has severe abandonment issues and that is very common with adopted kids. I was adopted from Korea and went through the same thing. What seems to be re- occurring is the fear that she might feel what she felt at the first time she was abandoned, again this is very common. This is a very intense process that your family will go through it takes time and adjusting. Therapy could help but it's natural for adopted kids to have very little trust in people especially strangers. There is a good book I believe it's called "being adopted" and that kinda helps the entire family understand and aid. Best of luck

Answer 4

yes .. my 7 year old daughter and I both have very vivid dreams almost every night.. and she has been doing it for years.. so what we do is every morning i ask her what her dream was about and i share mine with her.. that way she can talk it out(good or bad).. it really helps her to feel that i care about it, and also helps her realize it was just a dream and cant hurt her when she is awake. it can also be a really great way to teach your child to communicate with you so he will be able to verbalize what he is feeling. it very well could be that he has more sensitive emotions.. my daughter and i are extremely sensitive to our feelings AND the feelings of others. but talking it out really does help us get on with our day and not be defeated by our emotions. hope this helps :)

Answer 5

Enjoy the moment when he tells you his dreams. Both my daughters are like that and are not stressed by it during the day. They do very very well in school. And no, I didn't go to the nearest therapist over this. I think kids develop differently over other kids; ie, some speak better than they ride a bicycle, etc. In this case, remembering dreams. I enjoy listening to their perspective of the world. Very enlightening.

Answer 6

Of Course It Is Possible!

I remember having dreams as a small child about the Fox who had a bag with a bee in it. He would leave his bag with an animal and tell that animal not to look into it... But they always did. And when the bee escaped he would take something from that animal to replace his bee. Then he'd go to another place and repeat the scenario.... until he finally got to a farmers wife... and he wound up taking her son...

I would have dreams about that... about hiding from the fox coming to town with a sack....

Answer 7

My daughter has been waking in the night randomly since she was small screaming as though someone was hurting her or something. She is almost four now and when I try to ask her what she is dreaming about she just says I dont know or I dont want to talk about it. I haven't figured it out yet.

Answer 8

Oh my goodness its like if you were talking about my son! lmao I love his dreams! his room is right next to mine and my husband cut a hole in the wall where the closets are so they can come in and out of our room when they want and i hear him all night long! He fights and yells and cries and says i love you he just talks and talks about everything he did that day like if he was telling a story! It's very entertaining! It's great because if he won't tell me what he did at his grandmas he will when he's asleep! BUT one night he started crying uncontrollably! he started yelling that his father hated him that his father was beating him and he started saying " I'm 16 years old i shouldn't have to put up with him hitting me anymore, it's not my fault my mother died! i was just a baby" I'm not playing! I'm very serious! he's 3 years old and that night he spoke like a grown up! he said words that i didn't knew that he knew it freaked me out!! I'm not making fun of you or lying to you this really happened 5 months back. i was going crazy when he started saying that his dad hit him i woke up my husband and we had a huge fight and then started asking him questions while he was asleep that's how we got to the whole him being 16. i spoke to my Dr. and she checked him for abuse lol and then send us to a Dr. who send up to a Hypnosis and now i know what his dream was! They stopped but he still tells me about all he did when he's asleep and i get a kick out of hearing his point of view as to why i turned off the tv and refused to buy him a pizza lol apparently i'm a mean mommy that likes to see him cry lol