Toddler dreams – of the sleep kind!  – Mummascribbles

While Zach has been poorly this week, he seems to have had some very vivid dreams and some that seemed to be nightmares. What I’ve noticed though is how as soon as he’s woken up he’s said something relating to said dream. This has never happened before. 

The first instance was when he woke in tears in the night, so I went in to see him and he immediately said to me, don’t like it mummy, don’t like the giraffe while sounding genuinely terrified. He then briefly fell asleep after some soothing and I just made it back into bed when he woke again in tears. I went back in and he said, don’t like the doggy mummy, and pointing at his dinosaur park toy said, the doggy’s not over there. 

I started to recall how whenever I was poorly as a child with a temperature, I used to have terribly vivid dreams and also used to hallucinate! I had this wallpaper that had all of the nursery rhyme characters over it and I used to have the noise of a school playground going on in my head whilst all these characters were moving like they were in the playground! I remember it so vividly but I remember being horribly scared by it. 

On Thursday, a similar thing to the nighttime dreams happened with Zach when he awoke from his nap. Upon slightly opening his eyes, he said, can’t get through it, followed by, got to turn it round in the garden, while pointing out the back window! He was obviously referring to whatever he was dreaming about and I had no idea what that was! 

It’s been interesting that this is the first couple of times that this has happened. At the age of nearly two and a half, he is now extremely vocal so it makes sense that he can refer to the dream he was having immediately before he wakes up but I do hope that he doesn’t have quite as nasty ones like I did when I was ill. Thinking back to them, I still remember how blimmin scary they were! 

Do your little ones have more vivid dreams when they are poorly and have they ever woken up and immediately said something relating to their dream? I’d love to know