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      This was a LONG time ago, maybe at the age of 10 or so, I'm 23 now but after learning more about dreams and lucidity I wanted to question what happened one night.

      I'm really surprised I can remember all of this because from what I've read it sounds like you don't remember night terrors, just realized that something bad happened in your sleep. Well I remember this VERY well, it's vivid in my head.

      I woke up terrified of something, I don't know what it was but I was VERY terrified. I woke up in complete and utter panic, and remember first darting towards the door hunkered over, as though I was sick or something. My panic was so bad that I remember hallucinations, like depth perception issues and hollow sounds, walls moving and looking funny, much of what LSD does to you. Well anyways, I was conscious enough to find my door, but for some reason, which is the craziest thing to this day I couldn't open that door knob to save my own life, and I remember fearing my life that night, I just COULD NOT open the door for some reason.

      After that I was so frightened I went to the corner of my room, even remember what corner and ducked and covered so scared but I didn't know what to do, don't know why I didn't scream or something. As I was sitting there it still seemed like I was hallucinating, nothing was still and normal, sounds were different even though it was silent, and the room either seemed really large or really small, altered from how I really know it.

      Luckily this never really freaked me out past that point, ever since I've just found it profoundly interesting, I remember being too scared to tell my mom that that happened to me though.

      I also used to sleep walk constantly, but this was sort of a half awake type thing. And I sleep talk like crazy, usually when I first fall asleep, my friends have sometimes been able to tell me what I was saying and stuff, which is neat.

      I consider myself pretty lucky to have experienced all these sleeping "issues." I think it's made my start to lucid dreaming easier. In my first 2 months I've had 2 lucid dreams and I can usually remember 2-3 dreams a night without a dream journal now. Anyways, any thoughts about the night terror? Does it sound like a night terror?

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.
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      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.

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      Quote Originally Posted by mistikal View Post
      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.
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      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.
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      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.
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