Sleep Hallucinations | ADHD Information

Good Luck, We give my son Melatonin and he sleeps through the night now, before he was up all night with nightmares and such. I also take it. The hallucinations went away on their own and as I look back on it they were most likely stress/anxiety related as that was a tough time for me at home and at school.

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Does anyone have problems with their children having nightmares?

I have 4 daughters. 13 year old has adhd and nine year old has not yet had diagnosis but i believe she has adhd as well. 13 year old screams in her sleep and when i go to her she is curled up in a corner she says their is somebody in her room and actually seems to see someone I have to remove her from the room until the morning. My 9 year old wakes up a lot crying from bad dreams and is also scared to go back to her room. Does anyone have any similar stories and tips to help them.

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I'm an adult and I STILL have bad dreams, nightmares and night terrors [when you wake up but the dream is still happening.

In some cases, it's genetic. IF the kids are on any meds--they can add to it.

The best thing you can do is teach THEM to handle it. Otherwise children feel more helpless and that may increase the dreams.

With a younger child I help them make "monster conkers"--that is, we paint a stick or wrapping paper roll in bright colours with sparkles and stuff. We put that under the bed or by the pillow to "conk" monsters if they pop out during dreams.

If they're climbing into your bed to escape the dreams--you aren't doing them a favour. They need to get power over these dreams.

Another trick is to put on a small nightlight somewhere and have them look at it while thinking soothing thoughts. Then if they wake up--they can do this for themselves.

Hope some of this works for you.

PS: As nutty as this one is going to sound I AM Metis. If you have those cheap chinese/japanese dreamcatchers in the bedroom BURY THEM. It's one thing to have a properly made, prepared and sanctified one--it's another to have something that has the energy of slave child labour in it, catching your dreams.

I am a kindergarten teacher. The mother of one of my students told me (& it was confirmed by her caseworker), that her Daytrana patch was left on too long and she had hallucinations. I guess it was so bad that they had to find another place for her to stay at night (mom & the kids were in a homeless shelter) because she was keeping the whole place up with her screams.

Does anyone have problems with their children having nightmares?

I have ADD and had sleep hallucinations as well as many other sleep problems as a child. I was not medicated and my parents did nothing. This is something you should bring up to the doc and try to have a little understanding, my parents had none and just left me in my room to hallucinate. Nice huh?thanks for replying i try to leave the light on and the door open and give lots of hugs my 13 year old is due to start on strattera