re: Kids with Night Terrors

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Now adults with night terrors, that's when it gets interesting.

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My good friend's sister has had them her whole life. She can go 6-8 months without an episode, but then have several in a row. He said growing up it was wild to hear these blood curdling screams at 2am that would wake up the whole house. He said she'd be screaming about bug or snakes or rats in the bed or room and jump out of bed and run around the room. Or she'd talk to "people" in the room. They'd finally wake her up and she'd have no memory of any of it whatsoever and would fall right back to sleep while his parents and siblings were freaked out.
She would occasionally sleepwalk too.
Her husband thinks he's found a correlation between it being warm when she's sleeping. If they keep house at about 68-70° at night, he thinks it happens less. They also leave a fan on too.