re: Why do kids always have to say such creepy shite?

My son when he was younger has a couple of episodes of I'm assuming were night terrors/lucid dreaming, both while sick with a low fever. One was just some screaming and basically staring into space.

The second time when he was about seven or eight, he started screaming in his room at about ten at night. My wife and I rushed in there... He was sitting on his bed, alternating between a grimace and smiling with a guttural laugh while nodding his head. His eyes were open, but not focused on anything. At another point, he started saying over and over "I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die".

I kept saying his name and trying to snap him out of it (I was freaked the frick out, but my wife was even more so) and eventually grabbed him by the shoulders and yelled his name. He finally looked at me and said "what?" He had no idea what he was doing and didn't remember any of it.

I don't scare easy, but that was some of the creepiest shite I've ever seen, even more so because it was my kid. Thankfully that shite hasn't happened since.