Most of us have experienced nightmares at one time or another. They’re very common in children and particularly between the ages of three and four and seven and eight and still about 5-10% adults get them once a month. You’ll normally have your nightmare during the second half of the night when you’re REM dream […]

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Night terrors, is a particular dramatic form of partial awakening from deep sleep. The proper name for night terror is “pavor nocturnus (from the Latin pavor, meaning fear, and nocturnus, of course related to the night time). The French use different word incubus by which they mean an evil spirit that lays upon and possesses […]

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The same precautions to avoid injury in the sleeper must be observed as with sleepwalking. The room must be safe and predictable. Though night terror often do not cause the sleeper to leave the bed, it is possible for him or her to suddenly and violently leap out of the bed and move around the […]

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It is important to distinguish night terror from nightmare. The word nightmare comes from the old Saxon word mara, meaning demon. Nightmares are true dreams that is, they occur during rapid eye movement sleep, not during deep sleep.
Thus they tend to occur later in the night, usually do not produce much physical reaction as opposed […]

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Cynthia was a perfectly normal, happy child at least during the day. Like most seven years old, she was cheerful and bubbly with a natural inquisitiveness, and she greeted each day with enthusiasm and energy. Her parents were both grateful and amazed that Cynthia had brought such joy into their lives. But there was no […]

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