Why is my 2 year old waking up at 3am screaming?

Question

Well my daughter usually sleeps through the night without getting up, however for the past week she has been waking up everynight around 3:30am screaming, hysterical saying theres bugs in her bed. I looked in her crib, under her crib, even changed her shhets and saw no bugs. She doesnt have any bite marks on her and the only way to calm her down is to put her in my bed then she kicks me all night. I even try putting her back in her own bed after she falls back asleep and she immediately wakes up screaming about bugs! Someone help me, i really dont understand, my house is clean, we live on the first floor, all brand new, hardwood throughout and carpet in the bedrooms. Im clueless and need some answers!!

Answer 1

Maybe she has nightmares of bugs in her bed or something.. That would've scared me when I was little.  

Answer 2

mabe dreams of bugs

Answer 3

Just wondering if your little one possibly saw a movie of some sort (either accidentally or unknowingly) that had scary bugs or something like that.  Or possibly someone was talking about scary bugs, or bed bugs or something like that.  Good Luck, hopefully it won't last much longer.

Answer 4

When my son was two when he started having nightmares/ night terrors.  Some nights he would wake up screaming and be able to be talked to and consoled back to sleep and other nights it was like he didn't know we even existed and was in uncontrollable fits.  They say that this starts happening when children start developing an imagination.  When they start this stage it is because they cannot control their imagination and it starts coming up with irrational fears - my son was scared of lint!  This is just a stage but it will probably take a while to pass.  It took my son about 6 mos to come out of his fear of lint and nightmares.