Night Terrors
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- cruddlebub0
my three year old had these on and off for 6 months.... pissed me the fuck off....
- go to his room and yell STFU and go to sleep! I bet that will wake him right up and save him from the sleep demons!pango
- mg330
This all sounds completely awesome to me. What a great distraction from your daily lives. I'm jealous.
- CanHasQBN0
Glad to hear this is pretty common. I guess I'm pretty normal after all.
ttyl, I gotta go skin some kittens...
- CALLES0
so the other day i am sleeping and this huge snake is after me. im running away from it when it finally gets to me i wake up and im standing in my room flailing my numb arm which happened to be "the snake" cuz i passed out on it
i believed i screamed a little bit
- haha. i scared the shit outta myself with my dead arm once tooscarabin
- loltheredmasque
- I dreamt someone was going to cut off my fingers the other day. Had to look at my hands when I woke up to make sure they were all there.theredmasque
- all theretheredmasque
- theredmasque0
I've had some pretty intense dreams, some of which might be considered night terrors possibly. Funny thing is I've also noticed that if I lay on my back, this is more likely to happen than if I lay on my side. And it happens more often if my head slips a bit down the pillow and pressed into the base of my skull. I wonder if the pressure there triggers the dreams?
Sometimes i've been able to manipulate the dream, if I realize I am dreaming. Like if I don't like what is happening in the dream, I "rewrite" it so that the actions are more to my liking (like if I am being chased, I put in something in the dream so that I can outdistance my pursuer or something).
- Miesfan0
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic cockroach.
- randommail0
When I was younger, I attended church. That's when I had night terrors occasionally.
As I grew older, I stopped attending church. I've never had night terrors since.I've also had some extremely realistic sex dreams.
- dirtydesign0
wow. my dreams are lame.
mostly about work and monotonous nonsense.
- sublocked0
Has happened to me since I was younger. Less these days. Always happens when I'm sleeping on my back, never on my side.
- Someone must have done a study on this (back sleeping and dreams)... I'll have to do a search on google and see what comes up.theredmasque
- Ok yeah, I just looked it up and it's commonly associated with it.
theredmasque - with sleep paralysis / night terrors, i meantheredmasque
- sublocked0
I also routinely have vivid, intense dreams - not night terrors. I guess I wake up and talk in the middle of the night too. Not so awesome for the girl I sleep next to. She hates it. One time she punched me to get me to snap out of it. Jerk.
- theredmasque0
I have had re-occuring dreams for almost 20 years now about a post-apocalyptic future in which dinosaurs come back and people have to go live in these underground cities in order to not get eaten. I really should write these down. ;)
- I would watch this movie.CanHasQBN
- When Jurassic Park came out I had to go see it just because of these dreams.theredmasque
- zoozoo0
Are they happening tonight CanHaz?
- CanHasQBN0
I left the TV on in my bedroom last night so that it wouldn't happen. I heard that helps.
I can definitely bring on the terror by sleeping on my back. But I'm consistently a side sleeper. Anyway, I don't think I'll be trying it on purpose anytime soon.
- sine0
I had a similar dream a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't experience sleep paralysis then.
My 'demon' was a black voodoo-looking woman... she asked me to look into her eyes, then she came charging at me. A second before she attacks me I actually consciously thought "it's just a dream, I can just stand my ground", but then at the last moment before she attacks I thought it was real. I yelled and woke myself and and my girl up. Freaky, but it didn't bother me after I was awake.
- Though I did experience the sensation of not being able to get away fast enough.sine
- animatedgif0
"so you're physically paralyzed in your nightmare state. The line between awake and asleep becomes blurred. This paralyzation is usually accompanied by visions of an evil black shadow at the foot of the bed "
These are not night terrors, it's sleep paralysis and hypnopompic hallucinations. I think night terrors are much more serious, these are natural and the like the opposite of a lucid dream.
I got them all the time when I had a really bad sleeping pattern, the good news is if you're getting these then you're also close to getting lucid dreams and often if you wake with sleep paralysis and hallucinations then you can sometimes close your eyes and slip straight into lucid dreams, which is fun.
The hallucinations can also be much more solid than just black figures, I've seen floating objects and all sorts of stuff while paralysed.