I hear you!!! Our daughters aged 9 and 6 do exactly the same thing....come running into our room complaining of a bad dream and being unable to go back to sleep etc so our solution was to put a mattress alongside our bed which has a pillow and doona on it...now they come in and settle themselves ..and its so easy. Other than that they are fantastic sleepers..we just got tired of them wanting to jump into our bed when they had a bad dream.

Jo