Need sleep?

A couple of kids I know are sleeping well.    Us?  Not so much.  They start out in their beds.  He stays there some nights but seems to wake up about half the time after he knows that Daddy is up for work so he moves in with me.  For about the past month, she has been moving in during the night.  It started with a bad dream which was a humdinger.  It was allegedly followed by strange sounds and a green light of some kind which she doesn’t think were part of the dream.  Hence the waking up scared and moving to our room.  We’ve tried everything.  We are still praying at bedtime that she doesn’t wake up until morning but I think we’re getting a lesson on patience and sleep-deprivation for now.