Director of the Pediatric Sleep Center at Weill Cornell, Dr. Haviva Veler discusses the symptoms of night terrors, how parents can help their child with night terrors, and when to seek help from an expert.
My heart goes out to any child experiencing Night Terrors. Even as an adult, it's scary AF... Worst experiences in my life. Almost like a near death experience....
Sleep Mares they are its hard to even explain to people who didn’t experience it because they have no idea they think its like a dream but its not it feels so real that you almost start believing its real
My mother has had them since she was little i 5old her a few weeks ago if it happens again say the name of jesus..... then the other day she tells me I had a night terror and in it I said the name of jesus and it ended immediately
Ok.. We have solved this problem. And it works great! Heres what to do.. First. Think of what the child likes. Cookies, cake, any sweets really Second... Walk into their room and say this!!! Hey I brought you some cup cakes and cookies. They will instantly stop the terror and start looking for the cup cake. I'll say mmm don't these cookies look good. And the child will pause. Look at you and say yeah I'd like some Then everytime you do this the child will wake up nicely from the terror.. This helps immensely!!!!! Now when our child starts to have one. I walk in and say. Cup cakes and cookies. The child then automatically remembers the key words.and says oh my gosh I was dreaming.... This has helped 100% Now if the child starts to have one, the thought of cup cakes and cookies will pop in their head and they auto correct.. no joke... This episode here was terrible... Dont let it control your child..... Be there for them and help. Dont just allow it.... Say here are some cup cakes and cookies. They will look over at you holding an imaginary plate of cookies and actually stop the terror instantly!!!
My 3.5 year old daughter just had one, I think.. it was so scary that I started crying after she fell back to sleep. She woke up screaming and crying and she was hot, sweating, and her heart was pounding super fast. I tried to hold her and I said "it's OK mommy's here" and she looked at me with this eery, blank stare and then started screaming that she wants her mommy again as if she didn't recognize me! Then she'd stop and stare at the wall and still had this eery look in her eyes, something I've never seen before.. I didn't know what to do! I was scared myself.
Guys i have same problem I'm 22 years old , but I know how to be safe , just have clove of garic put it next to your bed , and caver you eyes and back, neck Spain area with blacket , then sleep, . It's work,
@@djok5194 I’ve had them since I was a child. I’m 18 now. I’ve hated cheese and eggs for the better part of my life. Recently though I’ve grown to like cheese but my eternal hate of eggs remains.
My triggers are stress and media related. I relax more and dont view certain things now and they have reduced greatly. From 15-20 times a month, as a child, to 4-6 times a year, as an adult. Seek out conscious triggers to minimize subconscious mind mix-ups. Good luck 🤞
I had this as a child. I developed an understanding of the dream i had every time i had a terror attack night. It was a dream of a fully dark space of nothingness. There was a large wooden box. I could lift it like it was nothing. No weight at all. It put me in a state of rage. As if i was burning on fire. Literally walked into my parents room screaming and sat on the bed acting and saying i was in fire. I was 3 years old when it started i figured the dream out at age 8. It stopped when i figured out the dream.
I quite frequently get them. Some days I can’t remember what happened but most days I remember everything. I know what’s going on but I can’t stop my actions of screaming and running around, it’s quite weird. I’m 17 still and have this, hopefully someday it’ll go away
Not sure if this is what a night terror is but I would wake up in middle of it and see my mom and siblings telling me to wake up, it sounded like they were screaming at me and I remember screaming and crying desperately trying to get away from them because in my dream (I had this dream everytime this happened) they were forcing me into a big machine where I'd get swished between two HUGE concrete cylinders that were rotating really slowly, and I'd hear my own bones cracking, I remember everytime I'd wake up for a split second and catch glimpses of my mom trying to comfort me and it was terrifying.
That’s freaking terrifying. I remember when I was a wee lad, prolly around 3 or 4, I had this recurring dream / hallucination of a thing that I called the big bad machine. I mostly don’t remember the details, but I do remember I was facing so I could see my entire room, and this weird, modern, white and black sort of plasticy machine with arms would float above me and try to steal a gemstone out of my bellybutton. Jesus tapdancing Christ I was a weird child. Frankly, that shite was terrifying
My daughter has had these since about 1 years old. Pediatricians didn’t believe me but she’s almost 3 and they haven’t gone away. It’s been about twice a month for a while and it always breaks my heart
I had the very same situation. Her pediatrician didn’t even know the difference between night terrors, and nightmares. We lived in an apartment, so luckily there were no stairs. Whenever I tried to calm her I would get hit, kicked, pinched. She never remembered anything when she woke up. I started a new approach. I would stay in the living room and call her to me. She would walk down the hall, eyes open. I would tell her to sit in her chair, and she would. I would start a conversation. It would be something real, and completely apart from the moment, such as, would you like to plant a tree? She would answer something equally detached, like, dogs would like it but it will fall down. We would continue a few minutes until she would wake up. It was nothing remarkable. She would simply start talking sense. I would ask her for a hug, and send her back to bed. After a few times, at the point when she would wake up, she would ask, did I do it again? It eventually occurred less often, but didn’t stop until her mid teens.
I had that as a child, I got up too and walk around the house and I didn't remember the next day. I had horrible nightmares that were repetitive over several years into I got to my teens years.
Same here. I’m 18 and it still happens sometimes. I remember the worst thing ever was when I woke up once on the carpet in my room and I was lying in a puddle of droll. I had gone to sleep normally and i didn’t remember anything at all. I used to hate myself because it was so annoying for those around me. I’ve had like maybe 10-15 dreams in total in my childhood I’d say. For me, I’d close my eyes and then I’d have this sudden realisation that I’m asleep and suddenly one second later I’d be awake. I felt as if I literally was awake one second earlier and just opened my eyes again when in reality I’d been asleep for so long. Still no dreams. I remember nothing.
ive had many Night Terrors, and have taken mental notes. When a person is near a rested mode and ready to sleep, somewhere in the brain, you would feel a sense of weakness as you would start to tire. umm,,, don't go to sleep. It is a good indicator that an onset of a Night Terrors will begin. It is hard to shake it off. It is not light headedness or dizziness. The feeling is of weakness.
LionessProwess no because of one major factor. You are aware that you are awake and but you can’t move in your sleep paralysis. You also almost perfectly remember what happened.
I know kids usually don't recall night terrors, but there's an exception to every rule. I don't remember all of them, but I do remember some, a few I remember bits and pieces of, others I remember just a vague sense of pure fear, and there are some I remember in crystal-clear detail.
Maizy Moo123 My Mum reminded me of a similar story. As a child I came running downstairs one day from my nightmare and I said could still see the thing behind the curtain pretending to hide.
I am 40. Mine began at 11. Their were triggers in my waking hours that, as an adult, I learned and now avoid. But, this still happens about 4-6 times a year. As a child, they were frequently happening 15-20 times a month. Horrible. Wouldn't wish this on anyone. I also am a somnambulist so, I wander around the house when they happen. Scared the $... out of my husband the first few years. Poor man lost so much sleep worried I'd walk out the house or hurt myself.
I’m terrified of going to sleep, not only because of my night terrors but when I wake up I still see things. I’ve tried to tell my parents about it but all they have said is that I was pretending. I don’t know what to do but I’m scared-
Sitting here trying to find out all the information I can about these night terrors. I feel heartbroken for my baby. He is so imnocent and sweet and so so so smart, I HATE seeing him like this! He had another one tonight but this time he was thrashing about saying... Im scared., I don't want nothing to happen to me😫😭😔💔 I just wish I could help him!!!
Awwww I’m so sorry to hear that. I know she said don’t wake up the child, but in my experience the terror must be broken, and that is done by first waking the person up and then gently caressing them until they feel safe again. When they wake up from sleep, the terror (really acute stress) lingers, so going back to sleep immediately is not a good idea. Gentle strokes help the person reconnect with the real world so they can go back to sleep without the stress of the night terror. They will feel good again after that so don’t worry for your baby.
It is actually stressful to attempt to sooth or wake them. I took a different approach with my little girl. I would stay in the living room when I hear her start up. I would call to her, sounding firm. She would come to the living room and sit on her little chair. She would appear to be awake, but having a conversation, she made no sense. In a few minutes she would say something normal, like, wasn’t I in bed? That approach allowed her to come through it without trauma. Getting her to come to me caused her brain to focus on doing that, and eased her away from the attacks. If I tried going to her, it only made her feel attacked. On those occasions she would tell me she thought I had a knife. 💔 Her pediatrician was no help, so I had to find a solution myself. I hope you find this, or something else helpful.
What we discovered is that a shower with our baby would help him, within minutes the terrors stop. Falling back into sleep has never been an issue (for the child). If the child is in complete panic, it just doesnt make sense not to try to wake him/her.
I know this might be weird but I had this “dream” thing and I was waking up first then me my dad and my mom went over to my Papaws and there was witches that turned into people we loved the couldn’t teleport or go into vents but my mom died first and then my dad died. Then I had to run through the witches to go to this bathroom but the door wasn’t fully closed but after that one found me then I made a run for it and then I he caught up to me and was about to bite me but then I said “Hey! Hey! I know where the black (magic or map) is!” While halfway in a scared and crying voice then I blocked out then woke up. NOTE: This was not animated in my dream it looked like REAL LIFE.
I've only had a night terror whenI was 11-12 years old. At the time, I was still sleeping with my mom because I didn't like my older bed as it felt too uncomfortable to sleep on. One day my mom claimed that she was having trouble sleeping and then out of the blue, I started to scream loudly. When she asked what was wrong, I started crying while saying "Nightmares" and she soothed me until I 'Fell back asleep'. Now, here is thing thing; I have been experiencing Nightmares since 2008-09 and it occurs so much I am just used to it, not even the worst nightmare can get me screaming. This was in 2018 and I haven't experienced one since as of May 2022
same here. I remember when I was so young (4 years old) I would start screaming and then I would wake up on my mothers arms screaming and crying and in such great fear it was so terrifying. I’ve been searching for what that condition was and I finally found my answers.
I know one day I was definitely not dreaming because I felt another kind of force on top of me and heard it growling. It wasn't even Sleep paralysis. Never had something like that happen to me
My 2 year old daughter sometimes wakes up screaming and crying, she doesn't let me or mom get close and gets mad if we try to hold or touch her at all. I've heard saying their name can make it worse so I try to be as quiet as possible while giving her space to calm down. She's a daddy's girl so usually I can make it better and it hurts when I'm not able to do anything for her. Just trying to find info or ways I can help her.
I have this as well lmao. I had a sleep over at church youth group and the bigger kids said I said the names of the people in my room in my sleep. *BRUH*
When I was a kid, I saw an anvil that was falling from the sky and going to kill me. That same dreamed happened a couple times. Then just recently as an adult, I felt trapped under my car, like I was changing my oil and the car was going to crush me if I didn’t move.
I am 20 and I have night terrors almost every night. I have to either wait it out while screaming help in it or screaming my way out of it. Which I hate because I wake up family.
I just had one and I am also 20. It’s paralyzing waking up, I didn’t know if I was still in the dream. It’s a loop that never ends so I called my sister and she told me she was real and stayed on the phone with me
@Leo Colon oh my gosh that sounds horrible. I don't get night terrors but I feel so bad. I hope I'm not being a bother but would you mind me asking what you saw in the night terror?
@@jst8837 not a bother, I ended up sleeping on my stomach one night, and I had a dream these people were trying to sacrifice my body to the devil so they were chanting, and next thing I knew they were pulling my spine out, and I looked to my left and the devil was infront of me and once I saw him I woke up screaming on top of my lungs to help me.
@@littleleo. Whoahhhhh dude you are under attack from the enemy big time. Wow thank you for explaining your dream. My son has been getting them every night I knew it is attacks from the enemy. Call on Jesus he has the power to break the curse. People who get this are in the spiritual realm under attack wow just wow thank you again and seriously call on Jesus Christ the devil is real. Takecare!
Lots of people here don’t understand that night terrors are not the same thing as nightmares. It is a completely different thing. If you think bad dreams is somehow unique, you are wrong. Everybody gets those.
okay so im confused if i have night terror or not because I remember being little and always waking up at night and sitting up to look around my room to check if someone was there or something. I dont know what i was looking out for but i would always look around. But all i remember is that everytime i would wake up i would be so scared and my breathing would be very heavy but yet I would go back to sleep like nothing happened. Im fifteen now and it doesn't happen to me anymore but there is this thing were i go into a limbo state or something, i dont really know what to call it because its kind of hard to explain to be honest. It happens rarely but when it does happen its really weird. For ex, sometimes i get this thing were ill wake up at night (i feel like im truly awake, but maybe im not idk??) but then ill fall back asleep no matter how hard i try to stay awake. For example, one time I woke up and i heard my dad, mom, and sister all laughing in my living room and having a normal conversation. But then I sit up on my bed and looked through my door expecting to see the living room light on and them talking but, no. :,) Instead, when I looked through my door my house was pitch black, dead silent, and everyone was asleep. I was so scared, I tryed to stay awake but I couldn't help but fall asleep. And the weirdest part of it all is when I wake up or whatever I know that when I fall back asleep something bad is gonna happen/ im gonna have a nightmare.
I feel you. I think we’ve experienced the same thing. I’ve been trying to figure out what those were. Literally every thing you explained has happened to me as well. It’s weird. I’m sure it isn’t night terrors though.
my sister just had this and i thought she was possessed lmao. i was deadass so confused she was awake and talking, ignoring me, then she went back to sleep
For me what happens is if I lay on my back and stare down my hallway time seems like it speeds up, everything gets louder and my room gets smaller. I can’t explain it to my mum and it’s really annoying me when I talk to her I suddenly can’t remember what happens it definetly helps being able to come on here and share what happens to me since I know there is probably millions more people who experience the same thing. Edit: I swear to god my hallway is infested with all spirits possible lol
The increased sound is deafening. That happens to me too. I remember mine for a few minutes when I wake then they wash away. Wrote notes so I know for later reference. You are not alone. My mom didn't get it either, thought I was schizo, had me tested... Not me mom!
I use to be able to wake myself up from a bad dream when I was kid. I would blow as if I was blowing a balloon up. I don't understand why you wouldn't wake them up because the dreams are so scary and your in the middle of it wanting it to stop- go away. You want to wake up because you know while it's happening it's a dream but unable to stop it. I guess that's why I learned how to control it. It's been a long time and I don't have them anymore. Funny how we can remember something from that long ago
I had night terrors until I was 7 and they started at 3 I would scream cry Hollar kick and punch and talk and I had no clue the next morning I would be like hi mom hi dad and they would be like omg u screamed all night and I ddnt believe them until my dad showed me a recording
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Almost for the past twenty days, my kid wokes up around 3 am and starts screaming badly, crying angrily and asks us to take out for play or else someother requests. Everyday going to bed has become terrific for us. Dunno how to solve this? Appreciated if u advice us
Ok.. We have solved this problem. And it works great! Heres what to do.. First. Think of what the child likes. Cookies, cake, any sweets really Second... Walk into their room and say this!!! Hey I brought you some cup cakes and cookies. They will instantly stop the terror and start looking for the cup cake. I'll say mmm don't these cookies look good. And the child will pause. Look at you and say yeah I'd like some Then everytime you do this the child will wake up nicely from the terror.. This helps immensely!!!!! Now when our child starts to have one. I walk in and say. Cup cakes and cookies. The child then automatically remembers the key words.and says oh my gosh I was dreaming.... This has helped 100% Now if the child starts to have one, the thought of cup cakes and cookies will pop in their head and they auto correct.. no joke... This episode here was terrible... Dont let it control your child..... Be there for them and help. Dont just allow it.... Say here are some cup cakes and cookies. They will look over at you holding an imaginary plate of cookies and actually stop the terror instantly!!!
I had them as a kid and psychic dreams because I do have a few psychic abilities and I know most gifted children go through this I remember now to call out to god for protection
100% You are correct. Call on Jesus he has the power over this realm as people who experience this are under attack in the spiritual realm as they must be anointed and Satan is trying to attack them. Whatever happens in the spirit maifests into real life
Last night I had a night terror but it wasn’t just one. It was all in one dream and I kept waking up in the same dream over and over and in one of the dreams within the dreams I thought that I finally woke up from the night terrors so I went over to my dads bed. My night terror dream was placed at my dads house. I then woke him up in tears because I was so terrified but then I thought to myself “what if this was another dream?” Then I bit my lip and couldn’t feel it and then I think my dad killed me but idk. The dreams kept on happening I think I woke myself up from how terrified I was, because of how hard I hit my head, or because I was screaming as loud as I could but you can’t really scream loud in your dreams or at least for me I can’t. I went up to my mom after biting my lip so many times it hurt and just balled because it was terrifying. Is this normal? I’m 12 right now and this has never happened before. Also now I won’t be able to sleep which sucks :( Edit: I think I’m traumatized
That is not night terrors. It is a nightmare. They are not the same things. Several years ago I had a series of nightmares similar to yours. I would wake up from a frightening dream, and then another terrible thing would take place. Now, don’t laugh, but at one point, I dreamed that I woke up and went straight to the bathroom. While sitting on the toilet, there was a huge crash, and the wall between the bathroom and outdoors came crashing in… because a mob of vicious looking men rode their motorcycles through it. So, at that point I simply thought, well this time I am definitely dreaming. I then thought I better wake up so I don’t do my business in my bed asleep. Let me tell you how I stopped it. I had been trying to write a novel. This was decades ago, and home computers weren’t very common yet. I was writing it all out by hand, which is quite a lot of work. I was spending every minute I could on it. In fact, I constantly fell asleep pen in hand. I even woke once to find I had scribbled nonsense as I dozed off. I came to the conclusion that I had taxed my creative part of brain to the point it would stay on during sleep, and try to be so creative, it could fool itself. I stopped writing completely, and refused to do anything creative. It soon stopped happening. You might be experiencing something similar. Maybe not with creativity. It could be something you do which is excessively repetitive. Nightmares are not always the result of something bad. Sometimes they are practice, to see how we might react in various situations. Hopefully, by this time you are over it, but even if you are, maybe my story will help someone.
I’m 17 and sometimes I even have night terrors 5 nights in a row.. my mom always wakes me up tho because I’m running around while I have the episodes, sometimes I even run down the stairs.. I am always sweating and trembling full of adrenaline when I wake up..
I had these when I was a kid about falling. They have came back now I think because of a drinking habit/stress and I'm 26 years old. Now the sleep terrors are about murder or extreme violence, couple times I was getting stabbed in my dream or attacked by big cats and wake up screaming and my adrenaline pumping. Very uncomfortable but I'm hesitant to see a doctor in fear they will prescribe me medication.
Sleep terrors is a condition which is not dreams, not nightmares. It involves screams, thrashing, possibly kicking. Trying to soothe a child/person during night terrors can get you beat up, and they have no knowledge of it, no memory about it. My youngest child suffered from it. She could also sleepwalk with it.
Bruh I just had a nightmare my mom shot Herslef in the head and I was just crying for the last 10 minutes like what the actual fuck is going on in my brain Jesus Christ
I know now that I don’t have think I have night terrors I think I have extremely scary nightmares can someone tell me if it’s normal that I don’t have normal dreams all I have is nightmares and if it’s a normal dream it’s always kinda scary
MAM I M HAVING A BOY OF 7 YEARS OLD . HE HAD 2 EPISODES IN 15 DAYS DURING DAY TIME BOTH EPISODES ARE SAME HE WAS SUFFERING FROM FEVER . HE WAS GIVEN MEDICINE OF FEVER, HE GOES TO SLEEP OR REST MODE AFTER MEDICATION OF FEVER. HE SUDDENLY WAKES UP AFTER 2 HRS AND STARTED CRYING, SPITING AND SAYING PLEASE LEAVE MY PAPA LIKE THAT . EPISODE WAS OF FEW MINUTES AFTER THAT HE GETS NORMAL AWAKED. WHAT IS IT KIND ADVICE
I can’t tell if this was a night terror or just a nightmare I couldn’t wake up from..... so I was in the downstairs area of my house and I was being chased by Annabelle(dat creepy doll) and I couldn’t wake up till I escaped the house...... can someone explain this to me?
I use to have night terrors and I wish my parents recorded them I don’t remember them barely at all very vivid but I was up for a while and I don’t remember what it was about but my parents say that I was always screaming “watch out behind you” and “he’s coming” and I always had my eye super wide and always screaming and sweating and crying until eventually I would wake up in my moms arms and feel soo over heated and crying and so scared
I had a dream last night that I married a total bitch and had a two year old suffering from night terrors... I then woke up and realize it wasn't a dream.
