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re: Kids with Night Terrors
Posted on 4/27/16 at 9:09 pm to Soup Sammich
Posted on 4/27/16 at 9:09 pm to Soup Sammich
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Makes me think she isn't fully awake
Read about sleep inertia, it will make complete sense.
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Posted on 4/27/16 at 9:12 pm to Soup Sammich
do you ever let your kids sleep with you? It helps, I slept with my parents and it always helped. I only got them when I was a lone.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 9:14 pm to Soup Sammich
Everything they are saying that is happening to them is real.
Have a good night!
Have a good night!
Posted on 4/27/16 at 9:18 pm to Soup Sammich
I feel for you man, my son had them when he was 2 also. The only thing that ever eased then was laying him on his stomach and patting his butt in a constant rhythm. They only lasted 3-4 months, but it was the longest 3-4 months ever!!!
It's just a phase that she will get over. Hope the best for you and your.
It's just a phase that she will get over. Hope the best for you and your.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 9:24 pm to Soup Sammich
Ya my exes son had them about twice a month for like 2.5 years or so, starting at age 3, and it was the absolute worst thing I have ever experienced. There is literally no way someone can even come close to understanding unless they have seen them first hand but I have and I feel so badly for you.
The experience we had was exactly like you described. Screaming and pointing at things that weren't there, saying things that made no sense while having while being the most terrified you could ever imagine someone being, kicking and fighting if he tried to hold him etc and then BAM in an instant he would be 100% normal and he would be all sweet and wonder why we were in his room. Like a demon had just left him and an angel had took over.
I can tell you already the doctor won't be able to do anything and just tell you don't let your child get too exhausted before sleep. I do have some possible good news for you because we did find something that worked, if we could get him to take a drink of anything with sugar he would snap out of it within a minute so we came up with a method for handling them that actually worked.
You know how when you wake up to one you are out of the bed and running to your kids room before you even realize what is going on? Well we would be moving within .02 seconds of that first scream and she would go to his room and I would run to the kitchen and grab a capri sun and then run to his room, I liked those because if he threw it then it didn't go everywhere so I could just pick it up and try again and also it seemed easier to get him to sip from a straw than a cup. She would sit near him and try to calm him down, you can touch them to comfort them but if you try to physically hold them down you are going to get your arse kicked and it is not going to help....only restrain them if they are going to hurt themselves. While she did that I would try to get him to take a sip, if I could it would be over. It usually took 2-5 minutes but when you are going through that the difference between 2-5 minutes compared to 10-20 is such a long amount of time that it cannot be fathomed by anyone who hasn't experienced it. Once he took a sip or two he would snap right out of it and we would just sit there with him until he was finished with the entire thing and it was over for the night. You are not supposed to let the child now what happened so we would just put him back to bed and then go talk about the crazy shite we just went through.
I hope that helps. Having capri suns and a plan of how you are going to react will make it a lot better, other than that you will just have to deal with them until she stops having them. Good luck, I really do feel for you. Its the worst feeling seeing your child like that but it does stop with age.
The experience we had was exactly like you described. Screaming and pointing at things that weren't there, saying things that made no sense while having while being the most terrified you could ever imagine someone being, kicking and fighting if he tried to hold him etc and then BAM in an instant he would be 100% normal and he would be all sweet and wonder why we were in his room. Like a demon had just left him and an angel had took over.
I can tell you already the doctor won't be able to do anything and just tell you don't let your child get too exhausted before sleep. I do have some possible good news for you because we did find something that worked, if we could get him to take a drink of anything with sugar he would snap out of it within a minute so we came up with a method for handling them that actually worked.
You know how when you wake up to one you are out of the bed and running to your kids room before you even realize what is going on? Well we would be moving within .02 seconds of that first scream and she would go to his room and I would run to the kitchen and grab a capri sun and then run to his room, I liked those because if he threw it then it didn't go everywhere so I could just pick it up and try again and also it seemed easier to get him to sip from a straw than a cup. She would sit near him and try to calm him down, you can touch them to comfort them but if you try to physically hold them down you are going to get your arse kicked and it is not going to help....only restrain them if they are going to hurt themselves. While she did that I would try to get him to take a sip, if I could it would be over. It usually took 2-5 minutes but when you are going through that the difference between 2-5 minutes compared to 10-20 is such a long amount of time that it cannot be fathomed by anyone who hasn't experienced it. Once he took a sip or two he would snap right out of it and we would just sit there with him until he was finished with the entire thing and it was over for the night. You are not supposed to let the child now what happened so we would just put him back to bed and then go talk about the crazy shite we just went through.
I hope that helps. Having capri suns and a plan of how you are going to react will make it a lot better, other than that you will just have to deal with them until she stops having them. Good luck, I really do feel for you. Its the worst feeling seeing your child like that but it does stop with age.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 9:29 pm to Soup Sammich
There is a lot of solid advice here. It's terrifying, but you will realize the kid is ok and it'll be over in few minutes.
Now adults with night terrors, that's when it gets interesting.
Now adults with night terrors, that's when it gets interesting.
This post was edited on 4/27/16 at 9:31 pm
Posted on 4/27/16 at 9:45 pm to pjab
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Now adults with night terrors, that's when it gets interesting.
Oh hell no. I don't care how much I loved someone if I saw any adult have one like the ones I have seen I couldn't sleep in the same house as them ever again.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 9:46 pm to Soup Sammich
My oldest got night terrors when young. It has turned into sleep walking as he got older. Most of the time now he just goes to the bathroom and pees and snaps out of it. Sometimes when he snaps out of it he will go into a laughing tirade.
The sleep walking has scared us a few times when he tried to go out in the garage and hearing the door chime go off freaked us out. As he has gotten older the less he has done it.
The sleep walking has scared us a few times when he tried to go out in the garage and hearing the door chime go off freaked us out. As he has gotten older the less he has done it.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 9:54 pm to pjab
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Now adults with night terrors, that's when it gets interesting.
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.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 9:56 pm to Trauma14
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t takes awhile but start documenting everything. What they ate? Did they nap and for how long? Previous night hours slept. Bedtime? And on and on.
how about what they watch ?!
Posted on 4/27/16 at 9:59 pm to pjab
I actually used to get sleep paralysis really bad. The most physically terrifying thing I've ever been through. Can't move and feeling of being held down and an evil like feeling. Truly terrifying but this seems different. May be the same thing. I'm going to read about the sleep inertia that a poster in here has mentioned.
I'm going to try the Capri sun suggestion but I know that will be hard because we have tried to get her to drink milk before but she just fights us.
I didn't expect this many people to have experienced these with their kids and all this advice is very much appreciated.
I'm going to try the Capri sun suggestion but I know that will be hard because we have tried to get her to drink milk before but she just fights us.
I didn't expect this many people to have experienced these with their kids and all this advice is very much appreciated.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 10:01 pm to Oates Mustache
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Read about sleep inertia, it will make complete sense.
doing a night terror search didn't come up with sleep inertia,
but more than 2 sites mentioned to watch what the children are watching on tv
I can't believe, not one parent here even thought to ask about that?!
but that's ok, nobody pays attention to my comments, and the ones that do, only remember accusations, and omit facts, like a fox tv reporter...
Posted on 4/27/16 at 10:04 pm to retired trucker
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how about what they watch ?!
I don't feel like this is a problem in my case unless Mickey Mouse or Goldie & Bear are suddenly haunting her dreams. We definitely don't watch anything that would be even remotely scary around her.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 10:09 pm to Soup Sammich
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Mickey Mouse or Goldie & Bear are suddenly haunting her dreams. We definitely don't watch anything that would be even remotely scary around her
good to hear
Posted on 4/27/16 at 10:11 pm to retired trucker
quote:
doing a night terror search didn't come up with sleep inertia, but more than 2 sites mentioned to watch what the children are watching on tv I can't believe, not one parent here even thought to ask about that?! but that's ok, nobody pays attention to my comments, and the ones that do, only remember accusations, and omit facts, like a fox tv reporter...
I see where you are coming from with what she watches and I appreciate your advice too.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 10:15 pm to Soup Sammich
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.
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.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 10:20 pm to SirSaintly
Mine have limited REM paralysis. So unfortunately for my wife, when I start fighting, she might just be about to get nailed. Fortunately, it's not full strength although she'd never admit that. I have been snapped out of it numerous times by her knocking the shite out of me in retaliation.
I'm 49 now btw.
I'm 49 now btw.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 10:49 pm to Captain Rumbeard
It's actually pretty normal for toddlers. It has to do with brain development. My 2 year old has them anywhere from 3 nights a week to every night a week. They are worse when he doesn't get a nap or goes to bed too late. It'll pass soon.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 10:59 pm to Soup Sammich
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I see where you are coming from with what she watches and I appreciate your advice too.
ok, last thought
do they sleep in the dark? if so, try a night light
good luck sammich
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