Sometimes nightmares happen because of what happened on the day before you went to sleep, you might’ve been stressed, you watched a horror movie, or you might have been really scared of something, nightmares also happen because you thought about a lot of creepy things or things that would frighten you before you fell asleep.
In epileptic seizures, the child may turn blue, but it will be during or after the seizure and not before. Wetting and soiling are common in epileptic seizures, but are rare with breath holding spells. Breath holding spells only occur when the child is awake and usually when the child is standing.