3 Year Old Sleepwalking/ Vivid Sleeper

Bolts on the doors so she can't go outside sound like a good idea ! I know I used to sleepwalk & outgrew it without major incident, although parents did a lot of instructing about waking myself up.

My son had night terrors around that age for a good couple of years. He'd appear at my side of the bed trembling from head to toe, walking him back to bed really didn't work ~ counted no less than 8 times one night & I had to get up & go to work in the morning! eeehh.... It was simpler for me to let him crawl in beside me & go right back to sleep. Woke one morning to find him curled up asleep with his blanket halfway downstairs on the landing. The whole thing finally just resolved itself & we'd wake to find him in his own bed.

Nowdays we have Bach Rescue Remedy ~ if he's had a difficult day or anticipating one a few drops under his tongue at bed time, he says helps him sleep better.

A couple of years ago I searched out night terrors & tho some of the info is the usual repeated material, I did find a few more innovative approaches.

i saw this old posting...prob have it solved by now!
But you could try Calms Forte for kids (health food store) helps quality of sleep...also Calcium/magnesium really helped my grandson. Seems his crying out at night (he didnt sleep walk however) was from leg aches like grandma used to have as a kid! I gave him some tylenol and rubbed his leg a bit and he went right to sleep. Later I just gave him some extra cal/mag when he had walked a lot that day etc. and it seemed to prevent the problem. Cal/mag calms the muscles and nerves as I understand it. I would have never guessed it was just a leg ache! He sounded like he was having horrible nightmares.

Hi B.!

I can certainly relate to your little sleepwalker. My daughter was also a sleepwalker/talker. She would be totally asleep but could carry on coherent conversations as well. She read me the riot act one evening saying I should be in bed already, and what was I doing still up, and on and on. (At the time I thought she was awake and showing her assertive side, until she got closer to me and I could tell by looking at her eyes she was out of it.LOL) She started the sleepwalking around age two, and it lasted up to her early teens (she is 18 now and no longer sleepwalks). We had to put deadbolts on our front and back doors up high so she couldn't reach them to keep her in the house, and when she was younger we had to install baby gates around both stairways (we had a spiral staircase and then reg. stairs in the back of the house), so she wouldn't get hurt. She didn't typically walk every night, we never knew when she would, but thankfully her Dad and I are both light sleepers and usually heard her up prowling around. She kept me on my toes thats for sure! The conversations with her when she was asleep could be quite comical at times too. She never remembered anything the next morning either! My son was a sleepwalker as well, but not on a regular basis like my daughter, only once in a great while. You just have to grin and bear it until she outgrows it. In the meantime, just do whatever you need to do to make it safe for her when she's sleepwalking. (Like I had to with the extra locks on doors and gates).

Those sure sound like night terrors. My brother used to have the same problem and they lessend as he got older. For him, we would just take him back to his room and he'd never remember it in the morning. My daughter also appears to have them but she doesn't walk in her sleep (yet) seeing as how she's still in a crib and can't get out.... But there isn't really anything you can do about it. I'm really sorry it's happening every night and wish you the best of luck!! Double check with her to see if she remembers what the dreams were in the morning but if she doesn't then it's night terrors. GOOD LUCK!

My daughter is 7 and gets up EVERY night. She doesn't remember it and has tried to go to the bathroom in the shower, near my nightstand and wanders around upset. Once when we stayed at grandmas, she went all the way downstairs in the dark and climbed up to the cookie jar. I heard it crash on the tile floor. This was at least 400 ft. away. I have tried everything and just walk her back to bed. she never remembers. I think it is in the way her brain works. I am glad to read the other post as we will need to put a bell on the doors etc.

I used to sleep walk a lot when I was little. The big joke around my house when I was growing up was that my mom caught my trying to go to the bathroom in the toybox! ha ha I still catch myself sleep walking and when I had babies around I would wake myself up screaming. I remember my dreams very vividly. I think a lot of it is the way that our brain processes what happens to us during the day. I think that I am a very perceptive person, almost to the point of having a sixth sense. I have had a brain injury and I think that also opened up another part of my brain. I would just suggest that when she wakes up screaming just go into her bedroom and rub her back until she eventually goes to bed. I think that the key would be to get her to deal with the issues and realize that they are just part of her. I do notice that if I have had a crazy day or watched a wild movie things tend to get worse. I don't know if you are ever going to get this to stop, so just embrace it.