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Re: Night Terrors

Posted by JenStar on November 3, 2004, at 22:33:56

In reply to Night Terrors, posted by saw on November 1, 2004, at 5:05:47

oh Sabrina,
I'm sorry you have those! They sound truly awful!

I sometimes get the night paralysis / half-waking thing -- not often, but when I get it, it's horrible.

I'll somehow suddenly awake and be half-awake, half-asleep, and not quite cognizant of that fact: All I'll know is that I can't move -- not a muscle, not a hair, not a toe, not a molecule. In fact, I'm so paralyzed I can't even talk or scream. I'll start to panic, and the panic will well up and get so intense that I can't stand it; I keep trying to move and can't do it. I'll be trying to scream and cry out but all that comes out is small whimper noises (like in a dream!) which finally wake my husband, who will gently shake me and say "Honey, you're having a bad dream."

And then I snap out of it so fast it was like it never happened (physically, anyway), and I shake my head and move my arms and my heart beats like mad, like it's going to pop.

And I KNOW it was just the night paralysis thing at that point, and that I awoke at the wrong time or fell asleep wrong or something, but the panic doesn't fade for a long time.

But as I said, that is RARE (thank God) - but so vivid that I remember the feeling for a long time afterwards.

But the night terror things sounds even worse. Can therapy fix it / help it? What might work, do you think?

JenStar


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