What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night

I usually babysat Christopher on Friday nights and placed him in bed promptly at 9: My heart skipped a beat as I looked at the clock—9: I just placed him in bed.

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It must have been the TV. But, when I heard the cries again, I immediately knew it was poor Christopher. What I saw was startling to say the least. Christopher was sitting up straight on his bed, eyes wide open, yelling bloody murder at the top of his lungs. I ran over to him, jumped on the bed, and took him in my arms hoping to stop the horrifying screams.

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Then, all of a sudden, Christopher awoke from the strange ordeal. He looked slowly around the room and asked me what happened. I told him that he must have had a nightmare. Dazed, I ran downstairs and called his parents.

I told his mother what had happened. He always gets night terrors. And, oh, yeah… Thanks for the warning. In fact, they are very different. On a basic level, nightmares are dreams that a person can vividly remember when they awake. Night terrors, also known as sleep terrors or pavor nocturnus, are not dreams. Pavor nocturnus is a frightening sleep disorder in which a person becomes terrified during a sleep episode, then has no memory of the event after they fully awake.

During a night-terror episode, the person will partially wake up screaming, moaning, or gasping for air.

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Most of the time, the subject cannot be completely awoken, nor comforted. It is difficult to wake up someone during a night terror, and if left alone, most will simply settle back to sleep without waking. Either awoken or left to sleep, the person oftentimes has no recollection of the episode whatsoever. You can usually tell if a person is having a night terror by the bone-chilling screams.

Needless to say, it is no fun to have a sleep partner who is prone to this disorder.

Is It Normal to Wake Up at Night?

Night terrors are most common in children 2 through 6 years old, but can occur at any age. They affect about three percent of children. Episodes usually occur during the first couple hours of sleep, and recur for a couple of weeks. Then, they seem to disappear. The good news is that most children will outgrow night terrors. The number of episodes usually decreases after age However, this does not mean that everyone will outgrow night terrors.

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