Night Terrors

Ok Ok. This may sound really dumb, but I have major 'night terrors', thats like really bad night mares and all that nasty stuff. Its just Im totally afraid to sleep now. I had the worst dream Id ever had, Id never been that scared in my life, i swear. I had a dream about opening my eyes and seeing the grim reaper. he was just standing there in the dark. his hands were read and postioned like an opened book, kinda like a classic picture of Jesus, you no? I was screaming, IN MY SLEEP. and my family was went into a frantic panic and came rushing in to see what was the matter, i was SCREAMING IN MY SLEEP. it was awful. I was so scared that in my sleep i was screaming at the top of my lungs for someone to help me. It seemed sooooo real to me, and I feel like no one understands what the heck I feel like. Have you even had a night terror that bad before, I feel so alone. And Im afraid to sleep now thinking Ill see 'him' again. So Ive been grumpy and my depression has sky-rocketed, and Ive been sleeping in the daytime, which kinda makes me feel better about sleeping, but I have school and all that jazz. so I need some help. You know. Email me or post I guess.

-- NightTerror Sufferor aka Meg Thanks

never had that dream before.. but can relate to sleepin in the day.. I used to have nightmares about other stuff and wake up sobbing my heart out.. I find if i sleep during the day the dreams are dreams rather that nightmares.. doesnt do much for ya social life, but I dont care I love My sleep.. and if that means sleeping through the day then so be it.. Hopefully it was a one off hun, but I do know how it feels to not want to go to sleep because i'm so scared.. hope everything turns out good, and you dont have a repeat.. a lot of the time it is a one off so try not to worry about it.. love and hugs xx

Oh I can totally relate on the "night terrors"... I dream every night and 50%, if not more, they are nightmares. Scaring me to death. I've even seen my own funeral, the devil, and murderers... I get them all the time.

~BJ~

I get night terrors. Most nights I will wake up and hallucinate, seeing things in my room, like hands coming from the ceiling, hands coming up the side of my bed tog rab me, spiders covering my body and ceiling, faces, figures. It's REALLY scary and I too don't like to sleep, but don;t know what I can do about it.

i have terrible night terrors too... i always dream of people killing me or taht im falling and every inch closer to the ground im suffacating and it really makes me have trouble breathing...but i also have scary dreams about things b4 they happen... like the nite b4 my grandma went in the hospital i dreamed her laying there motionless and coughing up blood all over me and my family...then the next day it happened...i have weird dreams like that...i donno i nv can sleep...

A night Terror is totally different from a nightmare...wasn't sure if you guys knew that or not, so I am stating it now.

Well I can sort-of relate. When I was younger i had night terrors all the time. My mom told me once that i was thrashing and moving so much that it took her, my father, adn my grandma to hold me down when I was only a little girl. It may be some what normal to be screaming and such with night terrors. I'm not that sure. I had them ever since I was born but they seemed to go away when i got to middle school. by then I was only sleep walking into my mothers room and sleeping in her bed. That may be my sleeping self wanting her for confort like when I had the nightmares. When I had the night terrors my mom would always try to wake me up before they got really bad. She had an advantage to doing that. I had this dog that used to tell her when I was begining to have a night terror and woke me up. Maybe if there is a way someone can get to you and try to wake you up before it gets as bad as screaming and waking the whole house. Sorry that I can't be of more help. I don't remember much about them. I jsut remember always having nightmares but that may not be connected to the night terrors. Hope you find some sort of a solution.