Night Terrors: How to Identify and What to Do

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HSC 526 - You're awakened by a blood-curdling scream. You race to your child's room to find her sitting upright in bed, with her eyes wide opened filled with terror. You call her name but she stares right through you, as if you are'nt there. But then as just suddenly as it began, the spell is over and shes back to sleep. If this sounds familiar, your child could be experiencing a common condition known as night terrors.

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[Jacquelin361]

@jm357m I heard it can happen to adults too. but more frequent to kids. (Agh! so even I'm ten I can't escape from it?!)

[0xshotgunx0]

I sometimes used to wake up and be imagining things and being all paranoid. One time i tried to climb out the window because i was imagining that there was a screaming noise and i had to get away from it but my mum stopped me and i realised i was having an episode then went back to bed. I remember doing it though. Is that a night terror

[jm357m]

I'm 27 and this still happens. Sometimes it's funny other times scary

[DeathKnightsCow]

ive had one once i woke up screaming and sweating i cant remember the dream but i know what it was about, when i woke up i was screaming it took a 5 or so minutes for me to realize i wasnt dreaming. What stuck with me the most was the undesirable fear, waking up sweating and the dream playing out while your awake. i always hated trying to fall asleep bec i would dream but after that night it was especially hard to even think of sleep itself

[conman2317]

My brother had these until he was 12 years old, these are not fully understood by any doctor, or anyone in the field.

[kkk345ify]

@Jillz500 thats actually not a night terror thats sleep paralysis

[brupacce]

The problem may be spitirual...children are more susceptible to energys and spirits... more prayers and the "Gospel on the Home" should help..

[tritonmole]

@PopeRocket

im 20 and i sometimes have the same experience

i had these terrors as a child, but i always remembered them

but now, if the terror doesnt involve damaged furniture, its ok

[ThatBigBad]

I had night terror when I was 3 to 5... I mostly had nights where I saw myself going out of my body and roaming the streets. Then I see a man with cross in his hand in the distance and the man turned the cross into a creepy clown doll and it chased me. Present days I don't even remember any dreams nor do I have night terrors. :)

[PopeRocket]

I am 33 y.o. and have had these episodes since I was a child. I have no recollection of those, but since my 20's have been experiencing sudden and violent awakenings which I have complete memory of. I am frightened and confused.

I wake up with no idea where or who I am but know that the sensation is 'not right'. I feel 'displaced', as if I were outside my head. I am mobile and, in two instances, violent. The episode can last for 5-10 min. as my sense returns and I remember my life.