night terrors

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elfbwillow @elfbwillow (307) 20 Jun 10

My two and a half year old daughter often suffers nightmares where she is crying out and sleep moving and sleep talking. From what I can tell they are not nightmares adults may have though such things as a rabbit in her room in...

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Home Invasion Robbery and Night Terrors ...Advice PLEASE!!

Tallygirl09 @Tallygirl09 (1380) • United States 2 Jan 10

Okay, Here's my story, all true. I can provide a police report to anyone who doubts it, just ask. I live alone right now, beloved is out of town for a few months for work. I am developing my own website. So I keep some crazy hours...

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if your bed partner is having a nightmare do you wake them?

moonlitmagikchild @moonlitmagikchild (22181) • United States 18 Nov 09

if you share a bed (with whomever) and the person is prone to nightmares and freaks out and cries out while jerking around do you wake them? i know there was an old saying about sleepwalkers and not waking them but i think that...

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She has started having night terrors

lilybug @lilybug (21107) • United States 17 Jul 09

My 2 1/2 year old daughter has recently started having night terrors. My son had them at about this age too. Dead asleep one minute and sitting up in bed screaming the next. Did your kids ever go through the night terror stage? I...

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is it true that people that are prone to nightmares have "bad trips" on drugs?

moonlitmagikchild @moonlitmagikchild (22181) • United States 30 Jan 09

i had a friend that was experienced when it came to drugs and he said that people that are prone to having nightmares or night terrors have really BAD trips when they do hallucinogen drugs (lsd, acid, etc etc) because their brains...

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Night Terrors

Bytemi @Bytemi (1553) • United States 29 Jan 09

Do you suffer from night terrors? Night terrors are not like nightmares in the fact that you respond to the bad dream and move (sleep walking, swinging, hitting) and speak eventhough you are not awake. Scary for the person...

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My ongoing fight with sleep paralysis!

I may have a thing called Night Terrors

libertarianfreedom21 @libertarianfreedom21 (3198) • United States 3 Mar 08

Have you ever heard of it. its like a nightmare only you are woken up with a scream and confussion and images of terror, most people dont remember what they are screaming about but they are scared and confussed, I on the other...

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Toddlers w/ Night Terrors

starangel @starangel (414) • United States 5 Feb 08

There's a big difference between nightmares and night terrors. In this post, the focus is on night terrors and how they're different from nightmares. This article is from the book "What to Expect the Toddler Years" (pg 313-314)...

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What are your nightmares usually about?

Amy @artemis432 (7474) • Abernathy, Texas 3 Sep 07

I actually don't have as many nightmares as night terrors that occur in a different stage of sleep then dreaming. I see things - a dark flowing shape - hovering above my head and in the moment think its real and scream...

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How do you deal with night terrors in one year olds?

beckish @beckish (641) • United States 31 Aug 07

My one year old twin grandsons seem to be experiencing "night terrors". If any of my four natural children experienced this I don't remember, but my grandsons are waking every night crying but not awake and inconsolable for a...

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Another Sleepless Night

mrs_lidwell @mrs_lidwell (115) • United States 24 Jul 07

Well, I put my son, Lenny, to bed at 10pm last night (which is an hour PAST his bedtime), he woke up at exactly 12:15pm and every 15-45 minutes since then... up until now! He just woke up and it is now 7:07am, although I am not...

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Night terrors?

momof3inTN @momof3inTN (89) • United States 29 May 07

All three of my kids have had them now. My daughter (8 months old) woke up last night and 2 nights ago and 2 nights before that and, anyway, you get it. Well, she was screaming like someone was hurting her but she'd just been...

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Do night terrors only affect kids? Or do adults suffer too?

toe_ster @toe_ster (770) • United States 25 May 07

If a child suffers with night terrors, does it ever go away or carry through the rest of their life? Can an adult have them? even if they never had them as children? Does anyone have any experiences t share?

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Does or has your child suffer from 'Night Terrors?' How do you deal with it?

toe_ster @toe_ster (770) • United States 25 May 07

I never knew what night terrors were until I had my third son, who is a year old. He has had them earl on in his life. We didn't know what it was or how to deal. We just thought it was fussiness or just crying. It wasn't until we...

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Night terror. Do your kids have them?

muscare @muscare (3068) • Australia 17 May 07

My 4yr old has a few nightmares, as I'm sure most kids do, but occaisonally he has night terrors. He is very hard to calm down, although most times he isn't really awake. Do your kids have night terrors, and if so, have you got...

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Reoccurring or not do you remember any childhood/adult nightmares?

Sissygrl @Sissygrl (10909) • Canada 29 Jan 07

Have you ever had a nightmare? was it reoccurring? Would you care to share? no matter how bad it is. i really like to hear about dreams, and nightmares really interest me. Please tell me all about your bad dreams. I really wanna...

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We think our son has night terrors!

kylesmiles @kylesmiles (1910) • United States 26 Jan 07

Hi all. We think our son (who is 1) has night terrors. He'll wake up about 2 hours after we put him to bed, just crying like crazy. He's still half asleep though. Just today, while we were taking a nap, he woke up three times,...

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Does your (special needs) child have night terrors?

sylviekitty @sylviekitty (2083) • United States 11 Jan 07

I just got back from taking my son to an appointment at an Autism clinic. We're going to have some general medical/metabolical/genetic testing done to see if there is anything going on with him that might be contributing to his...

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Do you know what night terrors are?

ldynimaway @ldynimaway (704) • United States 1 Jan 07

I have a post on here about having insomnia but one of my big problems when I finally do sleep is night terrors..not to be confused with nightmares there is a difference. Have you experienced this? Any ideas on how to avoid...

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