Anyone else have night terrors?
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Hi, my name is CJ.  \nI have experienced night terrors , on and off,  for years.  \nLooking back,  they seemed to occur at the most stressful times of my life, and usually when I was dog ass  tired. \nMy night terrors are more then nightmares.  When I'm having a nightmare, I know its not real,  and that if it gets too scarey I can wake myself up.   With my night terrors,  I at times,  find myself dreaming w/ my eyes open, and have self-induced hallucinations..  seeing things or people in my room,  and reacting and/or talking to them.    Usually, I wake up the next morning exhausted, not remembering my dream,  until my husband reminds me that I was talking to the black shadowy figure in the corner,  telling him to back off !  When I was 8 months pregnant w/  my son,  I was sleeping in our bed,  and dreamnt that I woke to find this dark hooded figure reaching thru the window,  thru my headboard for me.  According to my husband,  it took him close to 15 min's to convince me no one was there. I later just blew it off as being protective and anxious for my newborn child on the way. \n   Weird huh ?   Sounds almost like someone who did too many drugs in the 60's,  and I've never touched em !  lol \n\nWhat are yours like ?
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Yes, I have experienced sleep paralysis.  It is so terrifying because for some reason, you do feel that someone is in the room with you and that you are in danger but you cannot make a single noise or move a single muscle.  Actually, the feeling that somebody is in the room with you is called hypnogogic hallucination.  It certainly is very terrifying.  However, although I used to experience this fairly often a few years ago, I have not had an episode like that for a long time.  \n\nHere is a site with lots more information about this condition.
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I believe it is called night terrors.  Sounds physical and psychological.  Stress and worry can lead to nightmares as well as any recent traumatic/major life events such as the death of a loved one, etc.  Or, maybe you shouldn't eat pizza right before going to bed.  Just kidding.  Go see a Doctor.  Good luck.
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yes i am afraid of the dark and of windows when it is dark out
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yes I have that disorder, although I have never been diagnosed by a physician, I get a lot of comments about having sex dreams from friends when I stay the night at their houses, but mine all started when I was really really young and my sister died...hope that that helps
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Maybe your dreams but my nightmares..
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For some reasons, I used to have nightmares that the headboard on my bed would come to life (if would have these teo cold looking beady eyes that sometimes glowed) and it would attack me, usually stinging me in the neck.  I would try to run away but it would send out some type of force where I could only run so far and no more, and I couldn't scream either.\n\nI used to wake up crying hysterically sometimes because of it.
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Please call your doctor tomorrow and tell the person who answers the phone that prozac gives you nightmares.\n\nDO NOT JUST SUFFER THROUGH THIS.  Take action.  Please.
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I lived in a house once that had strange things happen.Things like hearing family members voices knowing i was the only one there, very very strange dreams, I used to see grey see thru bats that would swarm in the corner of my bedroom. I had freinds tell of see red eyes comming from the attic vent. The house just felt generally wierd as well. Later come to find out that the house was once stable in which two adults and one young girl around 5 or 6 yrs old lived there awhile back. The parents apparently got angry at the little girl and hit over the head with a spade and killed her
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I have sleep paralysis, but that isn't what a night terror is.  I am a registered sleep technologist, and know what these two are.  One is completely different from the other.  Sleep paralysis does make me awfully scared, though, even though I know that it won't hurt me!  If you are having either of these two disorders, you need to speak to your doctor ASAP and have a sleep study done.  The sleep study doesn't hurt, or anything- worst it does is makes ya look silly!  :)           Sleep paralysis is when you go to bed and just fall asleep when all of a sudden you didn't even realize you were asleep and now you can't move.. ANYTHING... your heart races, you sweat, you breathe like you were just in a marathon- you can't speak or blink at will- it stinks. It can also happen when you are woken up in the middle of the night.       Night terrors are when you wake up screamin in the middle of the night and don't remember doing it. Usually only kids have it.  Adults usually get it when they've been abused ( but not always true- it can happen to anyone).
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Ive experienced this afew times myself and its weird,its like u cant move ure body but u can hear whats going on around u,sort of what u read about when folk r awake during operations.Ive been told that its the period when r.e.m sleep begins but could also be linked to anxiety
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i can't remember what dream. if go to sleep right after  eating, i have nightmares. definite they're not inspiring, more scary
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This is one of the most common—and disturbing—nightmares that people have. The funny thing is, it’s not really a nightmare! \n\nWhat you are feeling when you are asleep and trying to wake up is a phenomenon known as “REM pressure.” Your body is trying to keep you asleep so it can continue dreaming. Why? Because you haven’t received your daily quota of REM! (Does your late night clubbing have anything to do with this? You bet!) \n\nWhen scientists first discovered REM in 1953, they began performing all sorts of tests to see how the body—and the mind—would react. For example, it was popular to believe that dreams released the psychological “pressures” of our subconscious minds. By extension, many people were quite sure that, if we didn’t dream, we all would simply go insane. \n\nOnly one way to test a theory, right? :-) \n\nBeing inquisitive minds, these scientists soon began recruiting subjects to experiment with REM deprivation. (To be fair, many of the scientists participated in the experiments themselves.) But the question remained: Would a REM-deprived person soon begin to hallucinate—and maybe hear voices during the day—as unconscious pressures began “seeping” into waking experience? \n\nThe answer, they soon learned, is no. REM-deprived patients are tired and grumpy, but they are not psychotic. What the scientists did learn, however, is that the body has an exceptionally strong drive to achieve REM sleep. Toward the end of the experiment, over 35 awakenings (per night) were required to prevent people from dreaming! (The body wants—and needs—its REM!!) It is significant to note that the experiment “ended” when the scientists no longer were able to keep their subjects awake. The subjects fell into a deep sleep, immediately began dreaming, and could not be awakened. \n\nWhat’s the moral of the story? You’re a little bit (maybe a lot!) REM-deprived. If you keep track of when these bouts of sleep paralysis occur, you will note that they almost always are associated with periods of sleep deprivation. Instead of your body waking up when your brain does, it’s asking you (well…insisting, really) that you let it sleep in a bit. The reason why you feel paralyzed is because you are! The body is unable to move during REM—so we don’t act out our dreams. \n\nWhat’s the good news? You’re not going insane! What’s the bad news? You may have to take a night off of your party schedule…to let your body catch up with your brain!
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Yes I have.  The weirdest thing that happened was after my husband left to go to work one morning around 5am, I heard the bedroom door open and someone walk across the floor.  I thought my husband had forgotten something and came back.  I felt someone sit on the side of the bed and I looked out from the covers expecting to see my husband, but no one was there.  I was scared.  I asked him when he came home from work if he came back in the bedroom and he said no.  When I told him what happened, he said the same thing had happened to him before.\nI have since moved and no longer feel anything in my bedroom, but I would swear something watches me as I sit in the living room in the evening.  It is always the same.  I will be in there alone watching tv or reading and I get a feeling someone is standing over by my grandfather clock watching me.  The freaky part about that is even my cat notices it.  He will either stare in that direction or leave the room, not getting anywhere near the clock.
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No it's just sleep paralysis. Something called a phantasm, I believe.
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my gf oso like that. really scared the hell out of me. the thing is make sure u eat \n& sleep well
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i have no idea but whenever i come close to dying in a dream, i wake up (really scared, but still ok....)