Do you have night terrors?

[Kraftwerk]

I've had a couple of night terrors (confirmed by a pyschologist) and was wondering who else on dream views has them. (Keep in mind that a night terror is something completely different from a nightmare)

[Butterflies]

Night terror: Sudden awakening from sleep, persistent fear or terror that occurs at night, screaming, sweating, confusion, rapid heart rate, inability to explain what happened, usually no recall of "bad dreams" or nightmares, may have a vague sense of frightening images. Many people see spiders, snakes, animals or people in the room, are unable to fully awake, difficult to comfort, with no memory of the event on awakening the next day(www.nightterrors.org) No, I can thankfully say I have not ever experienced that, or if I have, I don’t remember… I did have a roommate who had night terrors every once in awhile. Those things are freaky!

[owlj]

My little brother (now 28, I think) has had them his whole life. They are scary as hell (for those witnessing them). He has hurt people (beat the crap out of my cousin, slammed his gf/ now wife into the wall) in his sleep. There's a HUGE difference between this and the worst of nightmares. For one thing, he doesn't remember them (a big indicator) upon waking. I do have a few words that may help IF there is someone who is there when you have them (mother, spouse, sibling); I was able to suggest to him that he was somewhere else. I wouldn't say, "You're eating grandma's cookies" but I would say, "Aren't these cookies good, Daniel? Do you want another one? I like when grandma makes cookies.", etc. It seemed to work when he was little. I'm not around him now when he's sleeping. The last time was when he fell asleep at my house. He also has this thing upon waking that's scary (different than night terrors, I think. It seems like he has PTSD but I don't know why); he jumps up and assumes a fighting stance.... OUT OF A DEAD SLEEP! It's scary as hell! Anyway, it had been so long that I forgot about it so when he fell asleep, I woke him up for a phone call and he jumped up at me. I about peed my pants. He feels so bad after he does it too. It's good that you've just had a couple. Hopefully it will stop there.

[Kraftwerk]

Night terror: Sudden awakening from sleep, persistent fear or terror that occurs at night, screaming, sweating, confusion, rapid heart rate, inability to explain what happened, usually no recall of "bad dreams" or nightmares, may have a vague sense of frightening images. Many people see spiders, snakes, animals or people in the room, are unable to fully awake, difficult to comfort, with no memory of the event on awakening the next day(www.nightterrors.org) To those I say *usually*. From what my pyschologist told me, I recalled one. Only one. Every other one has just been a random panic upon awakening.

[Stormcaller]

Throughout my childhood I had them though as I got older they lessened and they are also mostly just a random panic upon awakening now which happens once or twice a year. I am able to recall one of mine as well.

[louie54]

Night terror: Sudden awakening from sleep, persistent fear or terror that occurs at night, screaming, sweating, confusion, rapid heart rate, inability to explain what happened, usually no recall of "bad dreams" or nightmares, may have a vague sense of frightening images. Many people see spiders, snakes, animals or people in the room, are unable to fully awake, difficult to comfort, with no memory of the event on awakening the next day(www.nightterrors.org) No, I can thankfully say I have not ever experienced that, or if I have, I don’t remember… I did have a roommate who had night terrors every once in awhile. Those things are freaky! Yeah you probably should have included in the poll "I don't know, I can't recall". I've read a little on the subject and people don't normally know they have them unless someone is there to witness it and they're just about never associated with nightmares. On that note, I feel like I've had them but I believe they were only nightmares. Sleep health might have been a good place to post this.

[JamesLD]

i had them a couple times when i was younger. they are FUCKING INTENSE. i would bust out off my room screaming bloody murder scared out of my mind.

[Maria92]

A-nope.

[Amoeba]

My mum used to have them when she was very little. Supposedly after a dog bit her.

[AURON]

No, I've never had them, and I hope I never will. Also I moved this to Sleep and Health.

[panta-rei]

Not commonly, but common enough.

[YYNYM]

I've had one, when I was four. It sucked.

[Queen Zukin]

Yes, I used to get them all the time. According to my mom, I would just randomly run to her room in the middle of the night and start screaming and then I would just walk back to my room like nothing happened lol.

[bewareofit1505]

Yeah, I've had two, and I remember them both quite vividly. In both cases, I woke up in sleep paralysis, had my eyes open, and my covers would slowly creep over my entire field of vision and try to smother me. I would blink really hard and it would set back to normal, then they would do the same thing. Both times it lasted about 5 minutes until I finally broke out of SP. It was scary because I had no idea about these at the time.

[Loaf]

My sister has night terrors occasionally.

[EspadaInMyCloset]

No. I think I had them alot during depression, but it was mostly breathing really hard when waking and had a slightly panicy feeling in my chest.

[Cochise]

night terrors occur in stage 4, while dreams occur in stage 1... somnambulism occurs in the same stage as night terrors

[Clyde Machine]

@Cochise Techincally REM sleep (where you're dreaming) has its own stage, which is separate from Stage 1 (where you're starting into sleep). Science tidbit. Voted too quickly. I was thinking of really bad night terrors where you scream upon awakening. I've had a couple of them where you just feel like you're falling and suddenly wake up. It's only ever happened a few times though. At first I thought there was something wrong with me, then I found out a lot of people get them, then I learned in psychology class that they're just called night terrors and are normal. Also, I've remembered all of mine as far as I can tell. So, I should be in the "Yes, once or twice" category.

[The Cusp]

with no memory of the event on awakening the next day I don't think it's necessarily no memory, but rather that they are really hard to describe. There are a lot of good descriptions of night terrors in this thread. http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=29794

[BeyondDreaming]

I've had to many for my liking.

[StasConstantine]

well few times I had a really scary dream, I woke up sweating, heart pounding and scared, will that count?

[Moppon]

I don't have them, I have images that would be frightening, but they are pretty neutral, because there is nothing to fear in the universe. I have been told that I can give night terrors though.

[Hidden]

I'm pretty sure I've never had one. They're something completely different than HH, right?

[Clyde Machine]

Correct, they are different than HH. They tend to be very short dreams/nightmares. Mine are those of falling, either on ice or from a building or something.

[~Erin~]

I've had to many for my liking. \ Well put. It's just embarrassing. I used to but I don't have them anymore thankfully. It was the transition from dreaming to being awake.. it was confusing to say the least lol.