Night terrors

[Guest littleloveslars]

Hello!

 

i am wanting to start a discussion about night terrors. i get these every so often, and wake up screaming bloody murder. It makes Daddy jump awake and almost have a heart attack, and is really traumatizing for me. i am curious if anyone else experiences these, and if so if you know why, and also what you do to help with them. i never had them as a kid, and to me it feels odd to get them as an adult!

[Guest McLeodLot65]

My irl daughter had these for months after I had a heart attack (I'm fine, but the experience scared her) but they are controlled by medication. She's doing well - I think she's only had one in the last four weeks.

[Guest Dulci]

I get them a lot. For me, it depends on a couple of factors, if I'm due on (crazy hormones) or if I'm stressed/anxious in the real world. 

 

I'm sorry you experience them too =[ 

[Persephone_Persephone]

I get them..have had traumatic nightmares since I was 3 and they are always repetitive. Doing good at the moment but I know how terrifying they are.

[Guest Akerbeltz]

They are a hypnagogic hallucinations, arising from the state between sleep and waking. Your dreaming but your mind does not know your dreaming, it thinks your awake. Your body is generally in a sleep state where motor functions are disabled. It's very common to feel a crushing feeling on your chest or that you are having a heart attack. Pepole have reported night terrors back to antiquity and many legends have risen from them. It was a common belief that a demon sitting on your chest caused the crushing feeling of the nightmares. Incubi were typically the main culprit blamed. Other stories blamed Witches that would ride the dreamer to their meetings like a steed, leaving them exhausted the next day. That's the origin of the term hag ridden.

Night terrors to me always stand out when I have one, because to me they seem some how more real than the normal day to day reality does.

[Guest littleloveslars]

They are a hypnagogic hallucinations, arising from the state between sleep and waking. Your dreaming but your mind does not know your dreaming, it thinks your awake. Your body is generally in a sleep state where motor functions are disabled. It's very common to feel a crushing feeling on your chest or that you are having a heart attack. Pepole have reported night terrors back to antiquity and many legends have risen from them. It was a common belief that a demon sitting on your chest caused the crushing feeling of the nightmares. Incubi were typically the main culprit blamed. Other stories blamed Witches that would ride the dreamer to their meetings like a steed, leaving them exhausted the next day. That's the origin of the term hag ridden.

Night terrors to me always stand out when I have one, because to me they seem some how more real than the normal day to day reality does.

Yes they can feel more real than reality. Normally im dreaming that a man is coming into my room and sometimes dream he is grabbing me violently, like ripping me out of bed.

 

Years ago i was in an abusive relationship and the guy used to break into my room drunk and act crazy, but i didn't start having these dreams until like 2 years after that happened. Its the only thing like it that i can think of that is similar to the dreams.

 

All i know is that if Daddy weren't here i don't know how i would calm down because if he isn't here waking me up and holding me, i don't know how i could stop crying and shaking.

 

with regards to feeling like something is sitting on my chest, i don't feel that during night terrors, but i have experienced that during sleep paralysis. That was also very unsettling, but has only happened to me one time.

 

Ugh its just so scary and i hate it. Mostly because Daddy wakes up to me being crazy and it startles him so bad, and i hate disrupting his sleep and possibly waking up the kids from my screaming. Last night was my worst one yet, and i cant remember what made me scream like i usually do. i felt extra scared, and i remember not being able to breathe right and not being able to stop shaking and even now am still a little shaky. Its so strange.

[Guest Akerbeltz]

It really is terrifying. I do sympathize with you. I hope they will go away soon. I'm glad you have someone there with you to help calm you after.

[LittleGirlEmilia]

I put my nightmares down to my PTSD. I dont know how to stop them. Wish I could. I never had them as a kid too.

[MisterMomo]

If it's PTSD related (traumatic incidents), efficient therapy exists ... 

 

I do have strong nightmares! I dream there are monsters in the room and I wake up all Wet, terrified with Heart Racing ! ..   Mommy hates it cause I yelll and wake her up in Total Urgent Scared Mode ...  But sometimes she just tells me it's a nightmare and one or two things to reassure me .. and then I fall back to sleep in an instant. She stay awaked and all shaked up ! lol ... poor mommy  

 

Other times I get up and watch Little TV shows or come Chat  (    )  ..  it's so scary I dont want to go to back to bed (monster is hiding in THE Wall near my Bed!)  

 

To help, I have a nightlight and I am supposed to reduce cafeine..  with suggestions from the forum, I also haz a stuffie responsible to Guard the bed against monsters... He is Highly Trained and no monsters can win against him ! .... 

 

I wish I'd tell you it works all the time, but it is not. It helps, but not perfect.  Sometimes I stay awake late so I dont sleep enought to have these dreams.  Mommy is also scared cause I move in my sleep and I can hurt her (did it twice) thinking she is a monster. (silly me)

 

I also have the total opposite : dreams so Funny I wake up Mommy cause I Laugh in my sleeep! .. and if she wakes me up, I can have insanely intense laughing moment for 10-15 min .. laughing non stop for no reason except the Extra Funny feeling from my dream. I Reallly prefer these dreams !!   

[Guest littleloveslars]

[Guest CaptainAmerica97]

I understand when it feels real, but for me I notice if I get hurt in my dream then when I wake up I have the bruises or the sprained ankle from the dream, and I know I I'm not sleep walking because I am always in the same place I was when I go to sleep. And I'm not hurting myself in my sleep, I sleep on the floor and I have nothing on the floor that would hurt me like that. And I don't know if it is PTSD or not that cause them but I have had traumatizing things happen to me as a child. I know there is Thearpy just don't have the money for it so I honestly don't know. But I do understand were y'all are coming from, and they are scary as hell.

[Guest CaptainAmerica97]

Yes they can feel more real than reality. Normally im dreaming that a man is coming into my room and sometimes dream he is grabbing me violently, like ripping me out of bed.

 

Years ago i was in an abusive relationship and the guy used to break into my room drunk and act crazy, but i didn't start having these dreams until like 2 years after that happened. Its the only thing like it that i can think of that is similar to the dreams.

 

All i know is that if Daddy weren't here i don't know how i would calm down because if he isn't here waking me up and holding me, i don't know how i could stop crying and shaking.

 

with regards to feeling like something is sitting on my chest, i don't feel that during night terrors, but i have experienced that during sleep paralysis. That was also very unsettling, but has only happened to me one time.

 

Ugh its just so scary and i hate it. Mostly because Daddy wakes up to me being crazy and it startles him so bad, and i hate disrupting his sleep and possibly waking up the kids from my screaming. Last night was my worst one yet, and i cant remember what made me scream like i usually do. i felt extra scared, and i remember not being able to breathe right and not being able to stop shaking and even now am still a little shaky. Its so strange.

 

 

They are a hypnagogic hallucinations, arising from the state between sleep and waking. Your dreaming but your mind does not know your dreaming, it thinks your awake. Your body is generally in a sleep state where motor functions are disabled. It's very common to feel a crushing feeling on your chest or that you are having a heart attack. Pepole have reported night terrors back to antiquity and many legends have risen from them. It was a common belief that a demon sitting on your chest caused the crushing feeling of the nightmares. Incubi were typically the main culprit blamed. Other stories blamed Witches that would ride the dreamer to their meetings like a steed, leaving them exhausted the next day. That's the origin of the term hag ridden.

Night terrors to me always stand out when I have one, because to me they seem some how more real than the normal day to day reality does.

 

 

I put my nightmares down to my PTSD. I dont know how to stop them. Wish I could. I never had them as a kid too.

               I understand when it feels real, but for me I notice if I get hurt in my dream then when I wake up I have the bruises or the sprained ankle from the dream, and I know I I'm not sleep walking because I am always in the same place I was when I go to sleep. And I'm not hurting myself in my sleep, I sleep on the floor and I have nothing on the floor that would hurt me like that. And I don't know if it is PTSD or not that cause them but I have had traumatizing things happen to me as a child. I know there is Thearpy just don't have the money for it so I honestly don't know. But I do understand were y'all are coming from, and they are scary as hell.

Edited October 28, 2017 by CaptainAmerica97

[Guest itsbabygirlbean]

Night terrors are horrible.