I found DD2 became really upset at nights when her last set of molers were coming through, she got them rather early at 21 months. Since then we have also had times where she would have bad dreams, I found I would actually have to sit her up, wake her up properly and get her to look at me and talk, calm her down and put her back to bed. Sometimes even raising my voice to get her in trouble. It seemed like she was still partly asleep and couldn't break herself out of the dream routine and would continue to wake up for hours. It pretty much did the job if she continued and wouldnt calm, now if she wakes I go through this and she is asleep fine again.

She does tell me some really funky stuff though, one night at 2am she was determined she was getting up for breakfast because I had told her that after breakfast the next day we would be visiting nana. It took me awhile to wake her properly and convince her it was still dark