Night Terrors? Help..?

Question

I keep having these horrible dreams where I know I am asleep and very aware of my surroundings, and I can't wake up. I'm my dreams i'm screaming in my sleep to wake up, or someone will walk in the room and i'm shouting and muttering at them to make me wake up, almost to prove i'm aware to them.

I have them everytime I am asleep, or if i'm napping. What is this? Are they night terrors, or something else? What can I do to stop these?

Answer 1

Jellycat, you can find out information on night terrors by doing a search on ask.com, here is a link to basic information to get you started, the description doesn't quite sound like what you are describing, though......
http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/night-terror?utm_medium=ask&utm_source=smart&utm_campaign=article&utm_term=Night+Terrors&ask_return=Night+terror
Jellycat, how long ago did these dreams start? I just looked over your q&a's for the last 6 months, I found a question about Xanax, one about chest flutters, one about Paxil, and one about divorce custody problems. It sounds like you are being treated for anxiety and / or depression, if you are on prescription meds, and if these symptoms started when you started on the meds, or when you started going through the divorce, these are things that should be taken into account, especially if this started when you went on the meds, they could be having an adverse effect on you. It sounds like you are having a lot of anxiety and stress in your daily life right now, and it may be affecting your sleep, or medication could be affecting your sleep. You should get all meds that you are taking together in one bag, and take them to your doctor, and talk to your prescriber about what is going on. If you see multiple doctors, and have multiple prescriptions, even if they are for unrelated issues, you should take all prescriptions together to one doctor so the doctor can look them over and see if there are drug interactions also. If adverse effects from meds are ruled out, or they change your prescription and the symptoms continue, then you may need to contact a sleep lab for help... good luck....

Answer 2

Hey. You could be preconditioning yourself to having these types of dreams. Your mind is extremely powerful and can control many of your physical abilities. Your fear of having these dreams may now be the cause of them. A good starting point is to set up the dream you want to have before you go to sleep each time. Maybe even at first talk to yourself or think about it for 15 minutes even. The stronger the connection your mind has to what you were thinking, the more it effects the dreams you have. I know this is really bothering you, so please contact me if you want to talk more about and see if we can figure something out to stop these things. I have instant messengers, which would be easier to have a one-on-one conversation. Let me know in your message if you'd like to use those. I have Yahoo, MSN, AIM and Skype messengers. I hope to hear from you soon.

Heath

Answer 3

Sounds like sleep paralysis.

"Sleep paralysis is a condition characterized by temporary paralysis of the body shortly after waking up (known as hypnopompic paralysis) or, less often, shortly before falling asleep (known as hypnagogic paralysis).[1]

Physiologically, it is closely related to the paralysis that occurs as a natural part of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, which is known as REM atonia. Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain awakes from a REM state, but the bodily paralysis persists. This leaves the person fully aware, but unable to move. In addition, the state may be accompanied by hypnagogic hallucinations.

More often than not, sleep paralysis is believed by the person affected by it to be no more than a dream.[citation needed] This explains many dream recountings which describe the person lying frozen and unable to move. The hallucinatory element to sleep paralysis makes it even more likely that someone will interpret the experience as a dream, since completely fanciful, or dream-like, objects may appear in the room alongside one's normal vision."

This would be night terrors, but it doesnt sound like thats it at all.

"Sudden awakening from sleep, persistent fear or terror that occurs at night, screaming, sweating, confusion, rapid heart rate, inability to explain what happened, usually no recall of "bad dreams" or nightmares, may have a vague sense of frightening images. Many people see spiders, snakes, animals or people in the room, are unable to fully awake, difficult to comfort, with no memory of the event on awakening the next day."

Answer 4

dreams r nothing but a materialization of things u have seen during d day!so probably u have watched something terrifying during the day that has become a part of ur dream.
so think of something pleasant b4 going 2 sleep.
a silent prayer is the best!