Thread: Night Terror

It sounds a lot like an experience that I had, however, mine was not so dramatic, and I was still asleep. In my dream, I saw a hammer hanging from the ceiling, and I became absolutely horrified! I have never been so scared in my life. There was no reason for this. I was just terrified.

But your experience beats mine, hands down, of course.

-sloth

actually i don't think thats a night terror, it was some kind of messed up hallucination, maybe somehow you entered consiousness even though your brain was still waking up and so all the random images that happend when your asleep became real..

anyway heres why i dont think it was a night terror( useful that ijust read my family health book yesterday looking for some symptoms cos i am ill):

1) When a child wakes up from a night terror the automated response is to actually wake up screaming.

2) Night terrors were never really dreams and so are supposidly never remembered( unless your mind fills the void of fear with scary images)

3) When a child awakes from a night terror they do not usually continue to experience any hallucinations although they are unresponsive to anything around them and continue to sceam and cry for up to several minutes, comforting does nothing.

4) A child rarely moves from the sitting up position and isnt actually fully consiousness( hense being unable to respond to any external stimuli). They usually fall straight back to sleep without any waking and so no memory of the event of any kind.

From what I know that does sounds like a night terror, but I'm not that familiar. Ask your parents if they rmember hearing you that night (well actually if it was that long ago that won't work) I've had similar experiences though, but nothing quite as dramatic.

The difference between a night terror is that you don't have any recall. In some cases, there is physical screaming etc when part of the brain wakes up.

Imagine what it would be like to be a child and explain lucid dreams and out of body experiences to them? So when you were about 10 and realised that you could be somewhere familiar, like your room, instead you were in a dream world and at that time you didn't have much control (as you would have now) and everything seemed/was distorted. It can be quite a scary experience.

Originally Posted by mistikal

The difference between a night terror is that you don't have any recall. In some cases, there is physical screaming etc when part of the brain wakes up.

Imagine what it would be like to be a child and explain lucid dreams and out of body experiences to them? So when you were about 10 and realised that you could be somewhere familiar, like your room, instead you were in a dream world and at that time you didn't have much control (as you would have now) and everything seemed/was distorted. It can be quite a scary experience.
[/b]

Yeah that does sound absolutely terrifying. This kind of relates to the fever dreams thread, at least for me, in that i could see my room, and yet my parents looking at me looked like monsters. sort of a night terror, but i never walked in my sleep, or did things like try to get out. Sounds absolutely terrifying.

I've had night terrors twice, that i remember, but probably more.

I remember the content of one of them.
It was pure, condensed, absolute terror. No images attached to it. No reasoning. No justification. I almost screamed. Probably gasped.


The terror quickly vanished as i woke up. I thought it was cool, and went back to sleep.