Last Friday, for the first time in my life as far as I am aware, I sat up in the middle of the night and started shouting and waving my arms around. I quickly woke up and had a moment of not knowing what was going on. My wife was absolutely terrified as you can imagine.

Didn’t think much of it and saw the funny side of it. Sunday night however, the same thing happened again only this time I turned towards my wife and started swinging my arms like I was fighting something off. My wife woke me, terrified again.

And last night the same thing happened again. I can’t remember what I was dreaming about at the time of these night terrors but I’m a bit perplexed as to why all of a sudden these are happening now and so often in a small space of time. It’s not very nice and my wife is petrified.

Anyone experienced anything similar?

Do you sleep on your back?

I fall to sleep on my back but rarely wake in that position.

You done something really really bad that you are suppressing from your concious memory?

I saw a program about something like this.

It was happening to some girl, along with dinner party urination, her head spinning round and round, and a tendency to vomit on priests then tell them that their mothers “cook socks in hell” or some such…

You done something really really bad that you are suppressing from your concious memory?

I couldn’t possibly comment.

It was happening to some girl, along with dinner party urination, her head spinning round and round, and a tendency to vomit on priests then tell them that their mothers “cook socks in hell” or some such…

I saw that documentary as well.

Aren’t they called “bad dreams” anymore ?

Mmmm… might be worth having a read of this 😯

I couldn’t possibly comment.

You bought a 29er, just admit it to yourself.

My stepdad did this – scared the daylights out of the whole household. He was always having the same dream, which involved a burgular in the house.

Further to psling’s link above (which I haven’t followed, so maybe already covered) there was a case a few years ago in which a bloke sleeping in a camper van murdered his wife during an episode, and got off with it…

EDIT; sorry, not very helpful…

I saw that documentary as well.

🙂

Just remember to lock all your crucifixes away of a night.

night terrors and nightmares are different things

I think I’m right in saying that nightmares/bad dreams occur at the end of the sleeping pattern whereas terrors, particularly in kids occur when the person is in deep sleep which is somehow disturbed, either from a noise, a sharp rise in temperature or other factors.

Try ear plugs when you sleep.
I have no medical knowledge of night terrors other than a documentary I saw where they worked out tiny sounds in the night set them off in the guy they were studding. Ear plugs pretty much cured him so it’s worth a shot for a couple of quid

I’ve only slept-walked 3 times and of those, I was only having a ‘bad’ dream once when I woke up. I couldn’t remember the dream itself, but I would realise that I was somewhere I shouldn’t be (outside, having a shower, etc. rather than being in bed!) Each time for me has been associated with heavy drinking. Has anything changed recently in your diet or stress in your life? Drinking caffienated or alcoholic drinks before bed when you never used to?

Sleep walking or talking is pretty common so no need to worry about it. The fact that you’ve experienced probably the same (recurring) dream for a few nights isn’t something to worry about either, but it does suggest that there might be something on your mind that your brain is trying to work through. And your wife shouldn’t be afraid or panic. If she hears you moving / talking try and get her to reassure you that she is there, everything is ok and to go back to sleep. She might not need to wake you up.

I turned towards my wife and started swinging my arms like I was fighting something

was she holding a pillow can you remember? recently got life insurance? just saying. 😈

Get a man in a dress to shout in Latin at you and splash you with water, that’ll fix it.

I have them on occasion – sometimes flailing around or annoying my wife by telling her some nonsense, but more often waking up with the unshakeable belief that I’m about to choke. It’s not the same as nightmares.

My understanding is that they can be related to stress. I also have very well-controlled temporal lobe epilepsy, and I’ve made the connection between an increase in terrors and periods when my epilepsy has been less well controlled.

whereas terrors, particularly in kids occur when the person is in deep sleep which is somehow disturbed,

linky? I want to read up on it, lad is waking up crying occasionally dunno if that’s classed as terrors, not screaming or owt.

Have you recently started eating a lot of cheese just before bed? That used to give me some really good dreams back in the day, but I had to stop when it made me feel knackered for work.

Donk – this is the first link I found when it happened to my lad. He’s had 4 or 5 in total now, over perhaps a couple of years.

http://www.circlecity.co.uk/sleepdesk/nightterrors.php

Put a pair of bombers on your bedside table. These will instill confidence in yourself and give you a good nights sleep, or they will give you something to grab when you do wake up in a panic.

Either way, it’s going to make your wife’s life a lot more exciting.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcv1EhH7Xh0[/video]

Cobras?

cheers.

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night terrors and nightmares are different things

I think I’m right in saying that nightmares/bad dreams occur at the end of the sleeping pattern whereas terrors, particularly in kids occur when the person is in deep sleep which is somehow disturbed, either from a noise, a sharp rise in temperature or other factors.

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Sbollix I’m afraid.

Night terrors are when people have nightmares in America. Nothing more, nothing less.

As usual, the term has hopped over here and is now used in general parlance for ‘nightmare’.

HTH.

Try having a jar or twelve before bed? that’ll relax you. Failing that, go for a tactical wnak but remember to alternate hands.

Night terrors are when people have nightmares in America. Nothing more, nothing less.

As usual, the term has hopped over here and is now used in general parlance for ‘nightmare’.

Not according to the NHS: “Night terrors are very different from nightmares.”

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/night-terrors/Pages/Introduction.aspx

HTH

not really cos u is rong 🙂

waking up with the unshakeable belief that I’m about to choke

Sounds like sleep paralysis — I’ve had that a few times, it’s pretty scary until you know what it is 🙂

My lad suffers from night terrors. It was quite frightening at first when we didn’t know what it was, but now we just let him get on with it.

No idea what the trigger is. He’ll do it every night for a week then stop for months.

Well…..if this is a recognised medical condition, why did it not exist say 30 years ago then? Go on, answer me that 🙂

All these things were called nightmares. We’ve just adopted American terminology and differentiated two things that used to be the same.

Well…..if this is a recognised medical condition, why did it not exist say 30 years ago then? Go on, answer me that

because the advances in neurological science that now allow brain activity to be mapped weren’t available?

just a guess…

😆

All these things were called nightmares. We’ve just adopted American terminology and differentiated two things that used to be the same.

Or science has advanced to a point where two things previously thought to be the same have now been identified as being different.

Also, Americans have nightmares too.

just a guess…

but hopefully for the OP’s missus, not a wild stab in the dark.

if this is a recognised medical condition, why did it not exist say 30 years ago then?

It did exist, it just wasn’t recognised.

Sounds like sleep paralysis — I’ve had that a few times, it’s pretty scary until you know what it is

Certainly similar, but I don’t get the sensation of being completely unable to move. More precisely, it’s the feeling that I’ve got an object in the back of my mouth that’s large enough to choke me if I swallow, but too far back to cough out*. I’ve now managed to train my brain to recognise this scenario and chide me into realising everything is OK after a minute or so.

*All filthy jokes gratefully accepted.

Sleep research is a relative newcomer in medicine. I think the first clinic dedicated to it didn’t open until the 70s.