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| Hi! Vic, I've read your story. Stress in education, work, or even love sometimes do triggers these NT problems. Do take it easily, try meditation, try to calm yourself down by taking deep breaths inhale and exhale. Probably take some evening slow walks in the park or garden after work or study to relax your mind. Most importantly think positively!.. Best of luck | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| hi im 13 years old , i never really had night terrors as a kidd . i've had two in the last week . i know its not nightmares because nightmares do not happen until the later hours of sleep . mine happen after 2 or 3 hours of sleep . though its not as dramatic as most who scream and whatnot , i only sit up abruptly panting , terrified , heart racinng . i then go back to sleep and i am fine . i do not have any trauma in my life , or anger , or to omuch sadness . im not exactly stressed out , i donnt know what the causes are . i remember the first onne . they both were abouut death . the first had to do with water as the cause of death (it was scarier then it sounds) and the second was fire . i hardly remember the seconnd one... im terrified to fall asleep tonightt . and now anywhere i go , i feel as if im beinng watched , and i've been terrified of other things . for a while i've been afraid that somethinng was under my bed , and if i let my feet or arms dangle off the side , the thinng would pull me down . it sounds childish , i know . and then another time i went to close my windows in my room . i have one above my bed , and two on the side of the room . all were open , so i went to ckose the two on the side first . i com eback to close the one above my bed , but it was already closed . no one had been in my room , and i dontt remember closinng it . i am terrified . |
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| Hi my name is Milly. Im 16. I have experienced night terrors off and on for 6 years now. For 2 years it was the same one over and over again. I was falling after being pushed and hit the ground. I am not afraid of hights when i am awake but in my dreams i am terrified. I have never experienced the emence pain when ive been awake as i do in my dreams when i hit the ground. I would wake petrified of everything and anyone. This particluar terror stopped for a few months and then returned. Now i have that one and others. All in which someone does me harm. I can remember all of these dreams. As i have a reaction which is almost fit-like it means im ashamed to go to sleepovers. My family leave me alone when i have a night terror now and this seems to make coming back to your senses worse. I have hurt people when ive had night terrors. People just dismiss night terrors when they dont have them but to the people who have them it can be so real confuzing and frightening.Im now to scared to sleep properly and get about 3 hours sleep a night. I find because of this i dont have the energy to enjoy going out and think straight. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hi My name is Alex and i have been having night terrors since i was a baby. they stopped for a while but then around last year they started coming back. now i am 13 and i had the worst night terror of my life last night. i can't remember everything but i can remember most of it. i woke up and came down to my kitchen to get some midicine because i didn't feel good. they were tablets and when i put them in the water some powder got on my hands. then i started to hullucinate. when i have night terrors i think things are happening. i am awake but my mind is still halfway asleep. so i started freaking out screaming and crying because it wouldn't come off and it started to spred. it was eating through my cloths like acid and then my skin. i knew it wasn't possible but i could feel it. then i sat on my kitchen floor still crying and shaking. then my mom ran in and scared me so much i started crying even more. then i i go blank for a second. then my mom is holding me while i cry and my dad coming in. he yelled at me because he thought i did something wrong. my mom finally calmed me down and i checked the time and i had been crying for 26 minutes before my mom came in and tok another 14 to get me back to my bed. i have obsessions with theese things. i always freak out about my hands or it starts with my hands and i know the time. the time is the only thing that makes sense. the next day my mom had to work so i was alone with my dad. he said what i did was weird and that he didn't believe me. i didn't know what they were till this morning and i didn't know how to explain plain fear to my father. i felt so weird. i still feel weird. i don't know what to do. they started coming back and i dont't know what to do. i'm scared to go back to bed. i don't know if it will happen again. my dad said sorry because my mom looked up night terrors on the internet. he figured out what happened to me. my parents say to come get them.but i can't. i'm embarassed to be like this.to wake them up |
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| I have a little boy who is just about to turn 3 and has just had his first night terror... my heart is still racing. As it turns out, my management wasn't too bad, having just read the suggestions on what to do and not do. I did try to hold him and console him and you're absolutely right, he looked at me like I was the boogey man and was screaming for his mummy! He was running on the spot, eyes wide open in sheer terror and pushing me away, trying to run out of his bedroom. Instinctively, I let him go, and within less than a minute he walked calmly back into the room, sat on my lap and held me tight and said I had a bad dream mummy. I asked if he remembered what it was about and he just repeated that he'd had a bad dream and started going all sleepy and asking for his pillow. He is now sound asleep. I came straight to the computer for some reassurance, and (sigh) found it is quite common. He had wet the bed, which is obviously what woke him out of his deep sleep and set off the terror. I'm quite shaken but relieved to hear these other stories. He also holds his breath and passes out (i know lucky me) if he cries too hard ie. if he really hurts himself or is really upset. I wonder if they are related?? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I am 14 and i currently started suffering from night terrors. last night, i had a total of 6 night terrors. I will get them right before i fall into a sleep state, "waking" abruplty, but not actually awake. My mind will be awake, i can see things around me, and im in reality, but my whole body is paralyzed, and it is extremly hard to make even the slightest movement or sound. honestly, it is incredibly scary. all i can hear is static in my ears, and i feel like there is a ghost or a spirit holding me down. i was petrefied the whole night, not wanting to fall alseep, praying for my school alarm to go off quicker. After the night terror, i will fall back asleep quickly, having a short, extremly vivid dream. i remember all of them. i didnt say anything to my mother until about an hour ago, she said that she had night terrors as a teenager, and that she will take me to the doctor very soon. im just afraid to try to fall asleep again tonight. |
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| I see all these post and realize that i'm alot older than most of you. I'm 27 and have had night terrors for as far as i remember. When i was younger, i would scream as lound as i could in my sleep, get out of bed and attempt to run from whatever i was dreaming about or even have full arguements that i know nothing about in the morning. Most night terror dreams will not be remembered but i suggest to see a doctor or possibly see if your parents can get you into a sleep study (like a sleep research center). I never did see a doctor and at my age they look at me like i'm crazy if i mention it now. Most of the time its stress that will cause these types of dreams and sometimes just calming your self down (try not to think about everything going on in your day to day life prior to going to bed) will stop the stress from coming out in your dreams. On rare occassions you may have to cut people out of you life b/c they are causing stress and may frustrate you while your awake but for whatever reason the frustration will come out when you go to sleep. Good luck,try to take my advice and de-stress yourself prior to bed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I have recently been notified I had night terrors. Now that I know I have them how do I deal. I don't want to be sent to a hospital also I don't want to be medicated. I am 17 and a senior in highschool. I don't know what to do in college if this is to continue. Any advice that you have recieved would be great to know. Thank you | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| hi i am 15 years old i suffer from night terror's too. mine are pretty scary as well. first i will be asleep as we all are, and then all of a sudden my body goes numb and im not sure but i will be screming for my mom but my voice come's out as if i am choking so i begin to bang on the wall but my arms and legs are moving very slowly and its as if i dont have enough sternth to make a loud enough noise but its pretty freaky cause sometime's i will try to use my phone to throw against the wall so my mom can here it, but when its over my phone is in my hand and my mom says she has heard nothing. well i have these everynight and they have just gotten worse know everything in my room begins to spin. i dont call on my mom everytime but when it is over and i wake up i will put on a light and music or call a friend and just think of a happy place till i fall back to sleep. they happen so often that sometimes i will actually feel them coming on and ask someone in my dream to plese help me so it doesnt happen to me and it works also my body is kinda used to it that i sometime's dont even wake up my body just goes numb in my dream. ive really just wanted someone to talk to about this. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| i am 15 now and i've been having night terrors as long as i can remember. sadly i havn't grown out of them yet...i normally dont remember them...i remember waking up and something being not normal and for some reason...it completely terrifies me. i normally calm down after 5-10 mins...i've tried everything, but i think its emotional and stress related. they stopped for about 3-7 months but they came back just recently, shortly after moving and starting a new school...so im really thinking stress has a big part in it? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| im 14 and i believe my first night terror was around age 12 -13. but unlike most night (terrors) mine is different... I wake up with a heart betting as fast as a scared dog and i get out of bed and go in the living where i usually find my parrents still up. its about 11:30 to 12 and i walk over to the fire place and sit down on the rock ledge its on. My parrents ask me wats wrong and i can hear and under stand them and i say i had a night terror or something...and that i dont really know wat happend..... and i dont... i wake up and im frightened for some reason. ive had it maby 4 times and this might sound stupid but i can faintly rember wat made me scared and i think it has to do with three short lines parrale to each other standing verticle....(i know it sounds stupid) but i dont think wat happens in real life that happends in your dream makes u scared i think in ur dreams stuff happends and ur minde reacts in a frightend way... |
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| i am a 17 year old girl and have been experiancing night terrors since i was about 12 years old. the worst one was last night, i felt like i was being thrown accros the room by something and they teddies in my room came to life! this sound crazy but was very scary. i ran to my front door screaming after i finking i was thrown, and was crying alot for some time after, i always remeber wat happens after and i was wondering if any one has any adive on what to do when this happens. i have been to the doctors many times and get told i will be reffered but never do. they dont have to live with this, what makes it worse is i live by myself and i habe no one to go to in the night. any advice would be appreatiated. thanks. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| it cold be emotionall. that is one of the main corse of night terrors. buy the sounds of the story u dont have a wife in the house.....im not being rude its just from wat u sayed "I do comfort her and try to talk to her." if you have had a devorce that chold be it even if she wasnt there to see it happen. im really sorry pointing that out if that is true just some thing that chold be y she is having the nigh terrors. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| i dont realy think that video games are to blame for i have never played on a video game or wached tv untill i was about 13. when i was 7 i started to have night terrors. i think it is mostly because of the high amoust of sugger that kids are eatting on dalybasses. |
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| hay is your kid still haveing truble sleeping? if u want your kid to stop having night terrors there is one mane important thing that i can tell u. dont get your kid out of bed. keepin him bed and do not give him something to eat. if he wants something get him a drink of worm milk or some thing but dont let him eat. keep him in bed. and one other mane thing give him less sugger in the day. that was the realy big thing that helped me i found as soon as i cut down my sugger levle my dreams started to stop. oh i almost forgot if your haveing dinner late at night that chold also be y. if u r try having dinner erlyer. hope this helps u wes |
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| My son has night terrors stills at the age of 14, we had our first at the age of 5. The best thing we do for him is to make him feel safe and loved. If your child pushes away let them go, making them safe doesn't always mean holding them. My son never remembers the time he is dreaming, but he asks about them(He talks alot in his sleep), I tell him what he needs to hear and i make sure he knows that he's ok. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I have a son who is almost 3 and has suffered from Night Terrors since he was about 1. It used to happen about once a month, but has recently got more frequent (1-3 times a week). I find that just picking him up and constantly saying that I'm here usually calms him down. They last from 5-10 minutes, and he usually starts out screaming for Mummy, and then progresses to Daddy. Sounds like these are very common unfortunatley. He also does not watch anything remotely scarey on TV and has very regular bed and nap times. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All my four kids use to suffer terribly from night terrors. They are now 12, 10, 6 and 5 yrs old and haven't had one for over a year. All I've done for them is make their bedrooms cooler!! I got this tip from another parent at local school, even though her child felt cool to touch in their bed she didn't rug them up as you would naturally do, this is so hard to do in winter but it seems to have done the trick for my kids! It's terrible when they are suffering from this, they look at you as if your the boogie man when you try to soothe them. Good luck. |
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| My 11 year old daughter has night terrors. It started when she was in the second grade the day she had her tonsils removed. I thought maybe it was related to her surgery but she continues to have them.It is not as often now. When she was younger she just use to cry but now she talks while she is having the night terrors. Sometimes she may have them several times in a week then she may go several weeks and not have one at all. During her night terrors she always comes into my room scared, crying and saying "OH MY GOSH" in fear. I do comfort her and try to talk to her. She does respond to me to some degree but it usually doesnt make sense. It is very stressful for me because I always wonder if there is something going on with her emotionally that I am not aware of because sometimes she will say she hates her life. I always tell her about it the next day but she really doesnt remember it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| responding to your message about your child having night terrors...my daughter is 3 and a half and started having them at just under 1 year old....I find it's definetely worse when she has a fever...but now her fever is gone...she is on antibiotics (for strep throat) and the whole 10 days she's been on antibiotics she has had a night terror....do you find that antibiotics or any other medications cause more terrors?? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I subscribe (free) to the "real age" site, I found an article there for my friend on night terrors. Generally the child will have the episode a certain amount of time after they go to bed, you need to time it a few nights to get an idea, so tell them you are going to be waking them up each night for a while, about 10 minutes before expected terror episode wake child up. This works on cutting the pattern. You may have to do it for a couple weeks, it harms no one so may be worth a try. The "real age" site has lots of useful information like this. |
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| Have any of you considered taking your child to the doctor to see if there is a cause for their night terrors? My almost four year old daughter has been having them since she was jut under a year. I got planty of information on how to deal with them best (please don't wake them, it only distresses them) She has at least three a week, some weeks every night, more han once a night. It turns out she has obstructive sleep disorder due to enlarged tonsils and adenoids. She is getting them out in two weeks and it can't come soon enough. Night terrors have nothing to do with dreams. They are often caused by not getting enough sleep. OSD and epiepsy are common causes if they are persistent. Don't put up with it for too long, demand to be referred to a specialist. Kristy |
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| My eldest was only 9 months old when he suffered his first night terror and sorry folks, but he had never seen anything remotely related to a scary tv show of video game so there goes that theory? He would awaken screaming like the hounds of hell were coming to get him every night and did so until he was 3 years old and it stopped as suddenly as it started. I sat with him and waited till they passed, tears streaming down my face. Nothing more I could do. I remember when I was 13 the neighbour coming over to apologise for his 10 yr old daughters' screams. Every night for weeks she would wake screaming. Damned if I know what it's all about but I can say I did wake my son one night, and he screamed even louder whilst attempting to scratch my eyes out |
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| I am 27 and suffer from night terrors I have been for the past 6 years they are now almost every night. although I now have some control within the dream, the dreams are lucid and very real and extremely scary. I usually do not scream out loud just wimper and my body becomes tence. I remember every part of my dreams they feel like you are awake, you can see the people around you but they cant hear you or help and mine are usually I am laying in my bed being killed or hurt I am screaming but no one hears me, and I sometimes wake feeling pain or pressure, I just have to keep telling myself it is a dream they cant hurt you but I spend the whole dream basically screaming I do use the golden light and although I do not go to church I find myself praying to God to help me. I have also woken to see strange things peoples faces look different and things in the room. The only thing that helps me is learning the method of pulling myself out and after the dream my husband holding me telling me that it is ok. My terrors keep him up and causes lots of sleepless nights. I do not watch scary movies or play play station etc. PLEASE DO NOT give your child sleeping tablets it makes it harder to wake up from the terror!! I am sorry I cant offer anyhelp but please just be loving and supporting |
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| My son had them a couple of yrs ago when he was 7 all we could do was sit with him have a cool drink ready and quietly slowely talk to him until he snapped out of it which was anywhere btw 5-15 min. He also would have no memory at all of it or having any sort of dream at all. I believe a part of it could have been either if he was ill & had a high temp or the air temp was quite high and his room very warm. After a couple of months it went as quickly as it had started. I had a similar problem growing up but it only ever occured when i had a high temp. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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