and I thought our youngest sitting up eyes open sound asleep talking a laungage unknow to man was errie, I would have a motion sensor that would trigger a bell in my room for this I have not heard of this before, sleep walking yes but this dream terror, wow, thanks for explaining it to me

Here is a good site that explains it better. http://www.nightterrors.org/

Night Terrors Symptoms: 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.

I have to diagree on the last part though. I do recall things once I wake up and don't forget that Jim found me in the linen room on a washing machine. It's a moment of "whuh?" However, I do not remember the "dream" or whatever caused it.

First things first~~ FRANKO??? SMACK!!!

My DH said that my eyes were always open and I would talk in a frantic manner about looking for something or someone. He'd find me in the closet or living room and finally got so he'd put his leg next to mine in bed in case I tried to bolt. Poor guy used to say that he had to sleep w/one eye open.

One time I told him there was someone outside our house and that they were planning to break in. Talk about poor DH looking like Barney Fife!!!! After I was dx'd w/a few things, the Dr put me on nightie night meds for my spasms and bye bye night terrors.

They did make for good party conversations, though.

LOL DM, that sounds like my house. Jim said my eyes were wide open as I bolted.

I haven't taken any meds. The terrors just stopped all of a sudden. I hope I never have one again. The scary part is now that Jim takes nighty night meds he may not even know and if he does he can't get out of bed without help!

Sigmund Freud would have a field day reading this thread. That's all I'm gonna say on the subject.

Sandy, I read this thread before going to bed last night and dreamed that I was trying to tie a ribbon onto a huge bunch of helium balloons but needed help. Someone (I don't know who but it was a man) helped me by holding the strings to the balloons while I tied them all together. Don't know how I did that because I can't even tie shoelaces with my numb right hand. Anyway, once I got them tied together he let go of the strings and off I flew into the sky!!! Then I woke up. Good thing, too, because I'm afraid of heights!!