Nightmares! I'm Over Them!!

[KristinsHomeCC]

In the past month or so, I've had 10-15 nightmares related to my child care.

*I leave the kids by themselves during nap time for a quick run to the gas station, I become stranded/flat tire/lost and am struggling and stressing to get home before closing time.

*Some dreams same as above except parents are at my house before me and are calling me/the police freaking out

*Taking trash out to get Locked out of the house and can't get back inside, neighbors letting me call my husband to bring home a key but when I dial his phone number, different numbers are dialing than what I'm pushing

Different dream each time but all similar scenarios. Im not geting great sleep because of how stressful they are!!

[KristinsHomeCC]

Oh I feel as though I need to add none of these would ever happen..I have a hide-a-key and would never ever leave my house during daycare hours

[CalCare]

That is totally a dream I would have haha Idk how to make it go away ;( Sorry!

I used to often have a dream, when I was a teacher, that there was some sort of apocalyptic situation and I was now in charge of like 15 kids because the parents wouldn't be able to get to us or they had died. I had them all- to keep in the rubble and darkness and under fire. haha And I don't watch those kind of TV shows so I have no idea where those ideas came from.

Too much stress during the day, I guess. How can you distress!?

[Rockgirl]

I have a couple of recurring ones:

1) People are flooding through my door, dropping off kids I've never seen. I end up with a chaotic mob of children.

2) It's naptime, and the kids are completely crazy. Running around the room, yelling, etc. I can't get any of them on mats.

[laundrymom]

Solution. Hide a key outside. (And obviously never leave them alone.) I used to have the same types of dreams too. Until I hid a key. It helped.

Rockgirl, I often dream the random child dream. Can't figure that one out. Lol.

I wake up thinking, who were those kids? Lol

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In the past month or so, I've had 10-15 nightmares related to my child care.

*I leave the kids by themselves during nap time for a quick run to the gas station, I become stranded/flat tire/lost and am struggling and stressing to get home before closing time.

*Some dreams same as above except parents are at my house before me and are calling me/the police freaking out

*Taking trash out to get Locked out of the house and can't get back inside, neighbors letting me call my husband to bring home a key but when I dial his phone number, different numbers are dialing than what I'm pushing

Different dream each time but all similar scenarios. Im not geting great sleep because of how stressful they are!!

[Unregistered]

Is your subconscious trying to tell you something? May be time to consider a less stressful job.

[Crazy8]

I used to have similar dreams! I remember having a dream of parents coming to pick up but I couldn't remember which child belonged to them and having dreams that a parent came to pick up and I forgot that the child had been upstairs sleeping all day and I never changed or fed them. NONE of that would ever happen of course, but I think I was just stressed at the time and daycare was on my mind a lot.

[KarenSue]

I have one that involves a giraffe and an elephant getting dropped off to my daycare. And I lose them. I had to find someone to watch my human daycare babies so I could go search for the daycare elephant and giraffe. It was the weirdest dream. I live in a suburb not the country so have no idea what this means. Always happy to wake up wondering wth.

[MyAngels]

I talked to someone casually once at a get together about this - I think she was a psychologist or something similar - she said it can be stress related, and it can also be because we feel the responsibility of caring for children other than our own so deeply that we are projecting our worries and fears about that through our dreams. I tend to have these dreams when I'm stressed out in general.

[JackandJill]

I have a recurring dream that they all run in different directions while we are on a walk, and everyone gets hurt.

They only crop up though when I am super stressed, stress can be work related or not!

When I was younger my stress dreams were always that I was calling out to people next to me but no one could hear or see me. Not sure which one is worse!

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

I used to have dreams that someone elses child was dropped off in my bedroom while I was sleeping and when I "woke up" I discovered this child and had to take care of it. It always slightly woke me up and I couldn't figure out what was going on due to only being semi-awake.

Stress was too high.

[Unregistered]

Weird, I had one just before waking up today. I never have these dreams.
Mine was that I'd signed on one new child. Mom showed up with a circus full of children, and somehow managed to leave two instead of the one that was paid for, and she thought it should just be a freebie since it was a mistake and all.
The only thing like this that I've dreamed of is when my first child was born, I dreamed there was a fire and I forgot him in the house.
I do kind of think it can be adjusting to a new stress. It doesn't explain mine though!

[Mike]

Dreams, especially recurring ones, can be the subconscious trying to tell us something, or they can be due to stress or fear. A few times in my life I had recurring dreams so bad I couldn't get back to sleep. They were stress of fear. How I learned to deal with them is to get my mind on something good when I go to bed. Listen to music, think about a dream vacation, whatever positive you can think of. Dreams are controlled to some degree by what is on our mind when we go to bed.

[Michael]

We had another thread from 2011 regarding Nightmares of Daycare: https://www.daycare.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26007

[Annalee]

Dreams, especially recurring ones, can be the subconscious trying to tell us something, or they can be due to stress or fear. A few times in my life I had recurring dreams so bad I couldn't get back to sleep. They were stress of fear. How I learned to deal with them is to get my mind on something good when I go to bed. Listen to music, think about a dream vacation, whatever positive you can think of. Dreams are controlled to some degree by what is on our mind when we go to bed.

I dream I tell my sil off quite alot!::