Rough Night in Dreamtime

[locus_ofcontro]

Course I don't dream!!

I'm glad I crashed out when I did. There were 3 separate visits from the dreamer each one increasingly distressful. K is now still snuggled in my bed where she finally ended up.

How do you deal with a 5 year old who wakes up crying that she doesn't want everyone to die?

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[the-nita.livejournal.com]

Don't I wish I had a clue - from what I heard in discussions with other parents when LB was having the everyone dies nightmares, it's pretty common though.

[hippybngstockng.livejournal.com]

Oh how I remember having this problem when I was a little girl. I was staying with my grandmother during the summer I had the bulk of my fear of death dreams, and started on my general daytime fear of it too. She dealt with most of it in the traditional manner for Americans, feeding me lots of Christianity, and talking about heaven which at the time did go a long way to making me feel better. Not suggesting you do the same since I ended up having the other issues with Christianity later on... ;) But some simplified spirituality of whatever variety you subscribe to will probably go a long way here, even if it seems a bit early in her life for her to hear it. Anything that will allow her to see death and the cycle of life in a way that feels less like the complete unknown is good. She doesn't have to understand it right now, she just needs to know that it's not a scary thing, and that she always has the love of the people around her even if they're not physically there at the time, and that love always goes on, even when they won't physically be there ever again.