If your child wakes up crying or sweating on a regular basis and comes to your bed, there is no need to worry: children have many more nightmares than adults, this is part of the normal development of the bed. ‘childhood.

So, between 3 years and 6 years, from 10 to 50% children occasionally have nightmares.

Conversely, the frequency and intensity of nightmares decrease in adults over the years. They gradually disappear, to become almost non-existent after the sixties.