Hallucinating?

[CarlyP]

This isnt the 1st time its happened maybe 3 times in 3 years, but at 1.30am i could hear my son talking in bed, sounding a bit distressed, then he started screaming get away get off me so i ran into his room and he was hitting his arms and legs in the air screaming, i quickly told him it was mummy and sat him up and cuddled him, he was very hot (temp 38.3) took him downstairs gave him calpol, asked him what he was doing in bed why was he shouting, he said a spider was getting him and he was hitting it??
The last time he went like this was a year ago, and was roughly the same situation where he said spiders where coming.

Really scary!! Any advice would be great x

 

[kiwimama]

I'm not really sure but reading that made me think of a little girl I used to babysit many years ago.
She was about three and on occasions when I would look after her, she would sometimes suddenly scream and get a bit upset and I'd ask what's wrong and she'd scream "snakes, there's snakes everywhere" and point to them. It wasn't when she was in bed though, it was just randomly in the daytime.

Maybe your son has had a nightmare with a spider in it, then woken up and still had the dream running through his mind and he's been really scared by it.

 

[mommyof3co]

I would think it's just a bad dream. The boys do it sometimes, not very often, but they'll start screaming something crazy like that in their sleep

 

[CarlyP]

Took him to doctors this morning, and he said because of his high temp thats why he was hallucinating

Thanks for your replies x

 

[m_t_rose]

dh used to hallucinate when he got fevers but he would be wide awake in like the bath or watching t.v. I get what your son did where I wake up and think there are spiders in the bed and I am screeching at DH to kill it and he has to turn on the light and show me they arent there or else I won't go back to sleep. Hopefully he will only ever get these dreams when he has a high fever and if he gets it again it really helps if you show him they are not there and reassure him to go back to sleep.

 

[mommyof3co]

I'm really surprised that they say that temp caused that? I converted that to only 100.9F....a temp in a child that age isn't even considered a fever until 100.9 so that isn't very high at all. Usually a temp isn't considered high until it's over 102. Either way hope he feels better soon and it doesn't happen again!

 

[CarlyP]

Hope so too. Just been advised to keep up with calpol/ibprofen to keep his temp steady.

Thanks for your replies x

 

[caggimedicine]

I've heard that temperature can cause hallucinations. It's the first thing I thought of when reading your initial post. I think it's quite common. I used to get it when I was young and poorly... I actually remember seeing worms on the walls when I had German Measles!