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I legitimately remember having night terrors when I was around 6 (I'm 18 now and was talking to my dad about how we remember when I had them when I was little), and I remember feeling the most intense primal dread I could imagine. I know people say you shouldn't be able to remember it, but I really can. I can't remember specific situations that vividly, but I know the feeling I got and it's really hard to explain. It felt like I was in extreme fear, rage, and crying at the same time (like I was in danger and I had to fight for my own survival and nobody could help me). I remember feeling some of the most intense emotions I've ever felt in my entire life and not knowing why it was even happening to me in the first place. My dad said it was really scary for him too, because he'd wake up to me crying outside of his bedroom door at like 2 in the morning and he wouldn't know what was going on. It was a really long time ago, but the feelings were obviously profound enough for me to still know what it was like now, and I'm just glad I haven't had problems with them in over a decade.

The secret is to guide them very gently and lovingly, back to sleep. Keep ur voice soft and calm and reassure them that everything is ok and gently stroke their hair or cheek, as you lie beside them, continuously speaking in a soothing tone, lulling them back to sleep. They will focus on your calm voice, and drift off into a calm sleep. If they are playing out a dream that they are stuck in, then change the direction of the dream towards one of love, happiness and calm.

Interesting how they go away into adolescence. I used to run up and down the hallway in my sleep. 🤣

Night terrors can be more than disruptive to the individual and should be addressed as soon as possible.

As a very frustrated mother, who has a child with difficulty sleeping since birth, this was extremely informative and helpful in understanding what is happening to my child now 3 yrs of age. With tears, I thank you for informing parents and answering our questions. Thank you.

I learned that nightmares take place during REM sleep and night terrors take place during the deepest phase of sleep, N3. Really informative video

I remember what it feels like it’s not cool, it’s like you are screaming but you can’t here yourself but anyone else can here your screams.

I had a night terror about my dad being chica from fnaf chasing me into the bathroom

Very interesting, this is good information to have to help family members if the need arises. Thank you for sharing.

Wow! I had no idea that this was happening to young children. It is so crazy to me that they do not remember what happened during the night terrors. I can not imagine if my children suffered from this. Thanks for all the great information.

I didn’t know this was a thing. I guess you learn something new everyday. Luckily me or anyone i know has night terror. This video is very helpful and informative

Wow I had no idea... Thank you for the info

Night terrors is something every parents should know about. I learned about this a few years ago and was completely in unaware that this is a real thing. Thanks for sharing

I learned so much and am thankful that none of my children ever had night terrors because they sound horrible. Nightmares are scary enough but becoming aggressive or leaving the home and never remembering that it happened due to night terrors is just plain frightful. Im surprised more children dont get hurt during a night terror.

I use to have a lots of night terrors...one day In my dream I had a someone advising me to read particular verses from the Holly Quran, I followed those advices and started to read them before going to bed and when I wake up from a terror attack , it really help...

I used to have these as a child. I'm glad they go away in adulthood.

My 8 year old brothers has night terrors EVERY NIGHT always around 10 or 11 whenever I’m getting ready for bed. I go in his room and he’s screaming, sitting in his bad, trying to climb down his ladder, and grabbing the air. Last night he kept asking my mom if he can “use it” or “give it to me” and my mom would say sure and pretend to give him something and then he’d feel better and she would rock him to sleep again

I've experienced this several times, even recently. Not frequently enough to require Dr assistance but I definitely was not eager to go to bed the next night.

I don't suffer from night terrors but I do experience difficulty falling and staying asleep as well as anxiety and panic attacks. Night Terrors sound horrifying both for adults and children! This was a very informative video!! 👍

So very interesting! I'm glad I got to see this because I didn't know much about it. It's amazing what the human brain is capable of doing without conscious thought. So I now know to never wake anyone who is having a night terror. I'm glad ppl that have them don't remember them after they wake up. They sound scary!

My 3 years old woke up a few times screaming probably due to some bad dreams. But she was able to sleep back right away. After watching this, I am positive my daughter's case is just nightmare. Thank you for differentiating nightmare and night terrors.

For some reason,I had night terrors and I still remember them

I found it so interesting that just adding sleep in can reduce the likelihood of night terrors!

WOW you guys really cover all aspects of sleeping, I am so glade I or anyone I know have had night terrors. I have heard of them but I never new much about the cause. Thanks this has been really informative.

I used to suffer from night terrors. I remember a few of my experiences but I am told by my parents that it occurred much more often than I remember. The experience is more than a feeling, although the feeling is intense and significant, I experienced hallucinations reacting with my surroundings and all of my senses. It's a distict feeling I've never had since and I hope I never feel it again. Terrifying. Luckily I grew out of them around the age of 13. Trying now to make sense of what I went through.

i am male in my 30s . my night terrors cause me to wake up screaming and terrified. . this happens frequently. the dreams are usually straightforward. ie. no violence or sinister. but my fear of existing whilst awake manifests into terror whilst asleep. also I've been told that I talk in my sleep . and my voice scares everyone that can hear me

My mom has night terrors. Just had a sleep study done. Thanks for the info

I heard of this before when we were researching sleep issues with my oldest nephew. The sleep debt thing seems to be common among making these existing issues worse, my teenage nephew was a sleepwalker as a child, but it only flares up now when he's extremely exhausted or under a significant amount of stress. I'm just glad this wasn't one of his issues.

Man I used to get these all the time, I only remember 1. Really interesting to learn about these

Interesting and heartbreaking at same time.

Night terrors usually aren't remembered but the key word is _usually_ in this case. I don't remember most of mine I had from ages 3-6, but I do remember some. While there isn't a dream in the traditional sense of a movie in your brain, there is a "dream" that lasts a few seconds that consists of knowing something, realizing something, or a single image or maybe an image with a tiny bit of an "action" sequence. Like for example, a night terror "dream" might be that the universe collapsed onto a line. An overwhelming abstract kind of pure terror. And since you're in deep sleep, you never actually wake up, your eyes open but your brain produces dream images of terrifying, abstract things and you just feel overwhelming primal fear. Another "dream" is realizing that you're just a one-dimensional line that stretches infinitely in both directions and nothing else exists except for you. Or another one involved some giant sphere/planet thing that looked like a giant Epcot sphere making perfect geometric shapes, but everything was so pitch-black.

I remember my night terrors like I was awake the hole time but I'd be screaming fully believing I was chocking to death on a big rubber spiky ball I remember thinking to myself there's noway I'm going to get such a large ball from out of my throat and I new I was going to die. I'd strip naked and run around the house screaming death crying my eyes out begging for someone to save my life, a couple of times the bath still had water in it and I'd strip naked and roll around in the bath like always "screaming death, begging for help" I could she everything in the house I could see my family terrified I was fully aware of every little detail I was awake and concious but feeling everything in my night terror so regardless of how aware I was I was just as lost in the terror and spent the hole time dying till one of my family members could lure me back to my bed and rub my head or hair till I fell back to sleep. My terrors stopped when I was 13 and started when I was 7, I'm 29 now and I remember them like It was yesterday, it was the same dream everytime I never beat it and I never got the ball out of my throat they just stopped happening. I remember when I was 17 and I was falling asleep on the couch and woke up to the taste of the spiky ball in my throat i hadnt had the night terror in 4 years by that point but will never in my life forget that taste once id woken i sat up and new extact what that taste was it raddled me for an hour or so after that its like my brain sensed it and had already propared itself for the nightterror but i was just dozing of so i woke to quick for the dream to start but my brain was already in nightterror protection mode. I wish more people would talk about those of use that remember our terrors like there a movie we've seen on repeat. We don't all forgot asoon as we wake up. I have a baby now and I'm terrified ill pass my terrors on to him. I'll wake up one night to the deathly screams of my little boy fighting for his life with nothing I can do to help but watch until I can try lead him to bed in his night terrors own time. I never survived any of my night mares or night terrors and no1 even those with me in my dream were strong enough to save me. All my nightmares where the same reoccurring dreams and everytime the monster dragged me out the window, eventually I learnt what was coming from inside my dream. I remembe one night i was waiting ready for the monster in my dream to open the window and crawl in to rip me out, I was staring at the window when i saw it crawl threw the window with its sharp teeth and claws and long arms and legs crawling like the exorcist I jumped up and ran down the hallway screaming for my family the all got up and ran down the hallway but by that time the monster was in the house and down the hallway holding me by my legs while my family held on to my hands they played tug of war with my body till I slipped from there hands and the monster ripped me down the hallway and out the window right infront of them, I never beat the monster it got me everytime it just went away one day. And another reoccurring dream was a trex came over the hills into my town and ate everyone and destroyed everything I'd always end up being the last one left and under my bed trying not to breath heavy as to not alert the trex to my location all while my heart is racing and aware the trex would find me and eat me and everytime I'd crash threw the roof and eat me from under the bed I never woke up till after I'd felt the trexs first chomp on my body then I'd wake myself up it never let me out till I had felt atleast one chomp. I could probably right a book of all my dreams and my night terrors so I'll leave it hear, iv rambled enough, hope someone enjoys my ramblings. I no longer have terrors and nightmares that I can't wake up from as soon as they start to get hairy but I'm on of the most mentally damaged people you'll meet and I breath anxiety I should be riddled with night terrors and bad dreams. It's a miracle. Now I just have dreams where iv lost someone important or someone I love has died which I also had as a child I just don't wake up crying in a hyperventilating state. I might wake up winpering from my loose inside my dream just very rarely.

OMG...I did not know this was a sleep disorder. Thank you so much for this informative video!

My daughter was about 2 when she started having night terrors. Omg it would scare the heck out of me. I would get her out of her crib and he eyes were closed and she was just screaming. I couldn’t make it go away. I had to wake her father up because it lasted a good hour. She had about 4-5 episodes, not every night but close together and then it stopped. To think the fear she endured. She’s in college now.

Never have I know anyone to B like this. I do thank you for all...

The natural food colouring “Annatto” also known as E160b is frequently reported as a cause of night terrors in children. It’s used in many food stuffs including cheeses, which may explain why cheese is associated with adult nightmares too. Keep Annatto well away from infants.

I am glad children outgrow night terrors. Currently, I believe my grand daughter is having night terrors. It's gut wrenching to see her cry in terror, but her eyes are closed.

I used to see things when i was little but i remember them. And many year later i still remember exactly what i saw. I 'm not sure what i had. All the things your'e saying about NIght terrors relate to me apart from the fact i remember them...

I’m at my grandma’s right now and I’m 14 and I don’t know if stress or anxiety has got ought to do with it because a lot of stuff has happened over 2 weeks and I remember jumping up and shouting with extreme fear like I’ve never been more scared in my life and my grandad came in quickly and sat my down and I managed to regain control of myself a bit and I was sweating and boiling apparently and then I hugged him for comfort then fell back asleep I only remember w bit of it then I woke up later and didn’t remember anything until he told me and then I remembered it By the way thanks to my grandad it only lasted less then 30 seconds because I was half awake during the night terror thing

My 12 yr old son started getting this And I did not know what it was the first few episodes until I searched it. It is terrifying to experience . He does not respond to any question related to what he is fearfully saying , BUT when I ask “do you want water?” He says YES and the moment I give him , his face and behavior changes back to normal (without being disoriented ). So I just change topic and say something like “oh you’re so sweaty” while rubbing his back. He responds to that (as his normal self) and goes straight back to sleep . Try it.

As a person who has light night terrors I can confirm all of these things. Although when you do have night terrors you can sometimes respond but not always clearly. It’s like sleep walking, you can talk to them and they might answer but in short sentences and mumbled words. I haven’t had many maybe like 5-8 but we still keep an eye on them. It is a really traumatic experience, and it’s hard to wake up from. You can see what’s going on and hear what people tell you but it’s hard to respond and since I have asthma it’s hard to breathe. For me the best solution is to keep them close, hug them, and just do what you would do for a regular panic attack. Except you just need to stay quiet. Trying to wake someone up from a night terror mostly just makes it worse.

sometimes I can remember a little bit

I didn't realize that night terrors can last up to 30 mins. for an episode. I also did not know about the inability of the sleeper to remember their episode unlikely nightmares which sleepers usually remember.

My baby started at six months. She screams to the points she vomits. She is 14 months, the practice of doctors did nothing to help.

My 2 year old is struggling with this I think, she will be sleeping and snoring then just start screaming and kicking tossing and turning. I fight with her daily to get naps I don't know if it's lack of naps. She wants to nap at 7 everyday and wake up at 9-10 and be up till 2-3 it's really hard. If I make her stay up she seems to have night terrors. I have let her sleep then wake up then sleep however it throws my day off. We sleep in till noon. She's supposed to be at daycare at 9 she's going to lose her spot. We do co-sleep. I'm not sure how to help my daughter. She has also started screaming like this in the day and my mother in law keeps saying it has to be seziers, idk she's not around to see it. We were admitted to the epilepsy hospital for 3 nights and 4 days hooked up too EEG and they found nothing

I had a night terror once when I was a toddler, I remembered it but it was kinda fuzzy. My nanny was there and I remember being awake sitting up and just crying and being angry and scared for 5-10 minutes maybe? I never had a night terror again though, or at least one I remembered

So very scary. I have heard of them but have not seen them myself.

When I was 6 I had these. One time when I was around 12 I also had one and that is the only one that I can remember. I coundt understand why I can't go through a keyhole from a door. I was so shocked. Afterwards I run up and down the stairs naked. I dot jad a fever that moment but when I was 6 just had night terrors out of nowhere.

My sister in law has them, sometimes really bad. Wakes screaming and alot of what u said except damaging pr hurting others

To be honest my night terrors started when I was little I thought it would go away by now since I’m 18 but I still have them every night and I don’t know what I should do

I'm 27 and I have hallucinations night terrors. And I always remember them completely. I remember what I saw/ what type of person I saw. The fear. Everything. It's horrible. And I can Hear my self scream from the bottom of my body, it sounds like someone is killing me, and it's what it feels like as well. My partner hold me close to him, but let's me stare at the person I usually see next to our bed. ( I have a grusom terrified feeling that the person will do something or move - they never do though, they just stand there).

I had no idea about how different nightmares and night terrors are. Until now I pretty much assumed they were pretty similar. I had no idea that people with night terrors experience complete amnesia around the experience and rely on others to fill them in, while people with nightmares usually remember them and the emotions that they felt. It has to be completely unnerving to witness someone you love experience such an awful experience - especially your child. Glad to hear that they usually go away by the time kids get to adolescence.

My son (20mos old) is going through the same thing right now hence I’m here… My husband and I thought maybe he is just having tantrums… my nanny thought maybe he is having gas. Every time I am always close to hitting him but he says booboo so I know something is wrong. Nothing seems to pacify him but he is a crier even when he was just days/months old so we thought it’s just normal… after almost 2 years of struggle… I finally searched online on what this is… some says it could be worms or sleep apnea or night terror… I’m pretty sure it’s night terror as he is actually asleep while having these episodes. Thank you for this video… it helped me a lot. Hopefully my son will grow out of it. :(

My 10 year old had some sort of night terror where his whole body was shaking and his eyes were wide open. He remembers everything while he is having it and is aware of me and his dad talking to him. Is this a night terror?

One of my twins suffers from this sometimes and it’s always at 2:00am on the dot or close to it.

When I’m sleeping my siblings tell me I walk and do stuff that creep them out sometimes I remember what I do and when I do have night terrors it’s always the same dream or the dream have the same topic

Can their breathing stop fornover screaming and crying.... This is the third time in last 2months... my 17months old son started screaming within 2 hrs of sleep he slept around 3:30am and started screaming around 4:45am and it contiued till 5:20am ...longest this time When we parents tried to lift him he was trying to slip away and jump from us by making difficult for us tonlift him....and was so loudly screaming.....breathlessly....O God... We tried giving him things he loved...but he just threw them in anger and tears and screaming .now after playing his fav song he calmed down and slept after 40mins.

I’m the opposite: I often don’t remember nightmares, but do remember night terrors

My parents told me sometimes at night Time I scream and yell out I’m dieing But I don’t remember any of it it’s like I’m being controlled but I don’t know ?

I had night terrors when I was 3 years old my mom and dad said I would wake up at 2:00 in the morning yelling, screaming, and angry they said my night terrors were horrible and when I woke up in the morning I didn't remember what happened. But the good thing is I grew out if night terrors :)

Isnt this the thing from brewstew where david freaks out

I’m 51 and still have night terrors .

Suffering with this has a adult. Not fun every one at the place I stay at look at me funny and ask if I was ok. I don't remember anything just felt so odd to wake up out of bed has your room mate tell you are you ok.

Night terrors sound awful. I've had bad dreams before and woken up with my heart racing, but thankfully it's been extremely rare.

My bestfriend had a son with night terrors and she dreaded the night time he out grew them when he was 9

Interesting. I'm glad that none of my children had these.

I must wake up like 8:00 but i always sleep in little hours is that good

I live with someone who has night terrors, except he’s not a child he’s a 350lb 30 year old man who’s built like an ox. Nothing like a possessed giant running down the hallways thinking something is trying to kill him. Scary.

No cheese or eggs in the evening was my fix 🙂

Never heard about Night Terrors until I watched the tv show called Evil. Of course, they embodied night terrors into a demonic being but made him a bit comedic and called him George. Fortunately, I never experienced night terrors.

and this was about when i was 4 or 5

you know how i know

I had one 😭

I get em like 2 times a year at least and im 16

I used to have horrible night terrors as a kid, I'd commonly do stuff like doing forward rolls on the floor or change my underwear thinking it would make it stop. I'd often have some sort of scenario fixated in my head that was the root of the panic - like if you're dreaming you just know the setting of the dream - yeah flying cars are a thing so what? that makes sense in this dream... Well the best way I can describe is that but something really bad is happening. Once I thought 'The earth was going to blow up and all of civilization as left on rockets to safety and I was left behind' I mean, where do you start comprehending that? haha Good scenario to panic in. ITS ALL FUCKED AAAAHHHHHHHH. I tried running away out my house up the road once but I was caught by a relative before I got far, God knows where I would have ended up. My cure for night terrors: go to the toilet lmao I'd just pee and walk out the bathroom like nothing was up - those few seconds of doing something you need to relax but concentrate to accomplish just made me snap out of it.

i am so i cant i ammubling ia feel there is smthing is bother emma e she is skare she need HELPPPPPPPPPPPPP

came for night terrors stayed for botox

my mom herd me screaming

i onc had a nightterr

Can’t believe this happened to me I punched at brother

Now I have a explanation for the demon in my closet

Is this like sleep paralysis or something else?

I am so happy my children never had these, I would have tried to wake them and that is the wrong thing to do.

My only dream i cried in:my family left me😭

I am fortunate that my kids so far have not experienced this. I can imagine how frightening this would be for kids and parents. Maybe the fact that my kids share a room is reassuring to both of them.

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12 KJV God can set you free in the name of Jesus🙏🏼

One time when i was 6 or something i woke up and was scared and started crying. My roomates told me if i want to go out to the kitchen and i refused to

Im honestly scared to go to sleep rn because i have been having atleast one night terror per night this week so im sat in my bed at 3.00 in the morning My parents have been telling me every night and i just gave up

Night terrors are not nightmares if so they are nightmares on steriods, i can tell from experience

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