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B is three and he does this as well, especially with naps and bedtime. At bedtime he'll ask if he can do something "after nap" and at naptime he'll ask why he doesn't have to put on his pyjamas.

Yeah, I think it's normal. My oldest does this all the time and she will be 4 in July. Even though she will say out loud, "nap is during the day, not at night!", she'll still later say when it's time for bed and dark outside "I'm not tired, I don't want to nap".

LO consistently asks if it's breakfast time when she wakes up from her nap!

I am relieved to hear that this is pretty typical. It happens to us a lot. Two nights ago DS said he was tired and wanted to take a rest, but when we started to get him ready for bedtime he got very upset because he thought it was naptime.

My kiddo gets mixed up because I don't think she knows that naps and sleeps are different. She gets that she takes one per day but she will ask for her PJs and a nigh time pull-up for nap time or get confused why we aren't going to her morning activities when she wakes up in the afternoon. @danda: Sometimes I do give her a bath after lunch if she asks hahaha. She does get mixed up about that also and I don't really care when she takes it.

My 4yo does this - everything is lunch. I've tried to explain, but we just go with it!

I also have a very verbal 3.5 year old and she mixes up map and sleep all the time. When she goes to bed she is always asking if it's a "short sleep" or a "long sleep". She also mixes up breakfast, lunch and dinner. Maybe they are just really lacking the concept of time.

DS is 3.5 and all sleeping is naans to him. Though he does differentiate between "big naps" and "little naps" he doesn't know what's when. He just knows big naps get stories. Score hand and little ones don't. He often asks when we're out on the weekends if he has to take a big or a little nap when we gets home.

He also gets super confused about the difference between today and tomorrow. He'll ask "where are we going when I wake up today?" And incorrect him that he means tomorrow and he gets really insistent that it's today.

My extremely verbal 4 year also mixes up times of the day. He gets the difference. Enteren meals and sleep/nap but he also confuses morning afternoon and evening. Anytime it is light out is morning to him. He saw the moon during the day (4pm) and he kept saying the moon is out in the morning! I couldn't convince him otherwise.