re: Kids with Night Terrors

I grew up with them. I've been told that I was throwing my mother around at five. They'd put me in the shower to try to snap me out of it.

They sent me to a psychologist in the seventies where I learned biofeedback techniques in the hope I could take control of the dreams.

I did.

This led to my teen years where I would have hypnogogic hallucinations and absolutely no understanding of what they were. What I was seeing or experiencing in the dream would follow me out and be as real as if I'd been awake for ten hours. There's no difference to the brain.

So I've 'seen things' like old women and demons and rats and snakes and gorillas and you name it while I'm awake right as I'm going in, or more likely lately, coming out of sleep. Ghosts? lol. Totally get it. But I'm trained to realize when I'm awake and I'm now seeing something that absurd, I instantly label it as a hallucination and POOF! It's gone. The adrenaline takes a bit longer.

This is, if I'm honest about it, the primary reason I got a psych degree.

So the lesson here is... Get your kid some modern therapy because damn near anything is better than a psych degree.