Night Terror Research Paper
Alannah Francis
Imagine your having a nightmare. Someone or something is chasing you with a chainsaw. You run through wet grass and you can feel cold mud squish between your toes. Suddenly, you trip on a rock and a sharp pain erupts in your ankle. Its getting closer. You try to get up but the pain is too much. There right in front of you holding chainsaw. This is usually the part where you wake up, right? Wrong. The chainsaw rips through your skin and blood spatters everywhere. You thrash around and hit your head on another rock and everything goes black.
The bright sun wakes you up and you notice that you have a splitting headache. You take a look around and notice that your on the floor of your bedroom surrounded by shards of a broken lamp that has been knocked off the dresser. You have no recollection of what had happened the night before, you can't even remember your dream, and you never will. …show more content…
Night terrors are horrific nightmares that may cause you to act them out in real life. Some motions can even simulate a panic attack or a seizure. They have a tendency to move and talk as if they were conscious. This type of behavior will continue until something drastic, such as walking into a door or falling out of bed, will wake them up. Most of the time when someone experiences a night terror, they think that it is just another nightmare. …show more content…
When having a nightmare, one can easily be awoken but when experiencing a night terror, this is like the 12 Labors of Hercules, impossible. Another difference is that when you have a nightmare, you can remember every petrifying detail with a vivid memory. When you have a night terror, most of the time you cannot remember any of the
Imagine your having a nightmare. Someone or something is chasing you with a chainsaw. You run through wet grass and you can feel cold mud squish between your toes. Suddenly, you trip on a rock and a sharp pain erupts in your ankle. Its getting closer. You try to get up but the pain is too much. There right in front of you holding chainsaw. This is usually the part where you wake up, right? Wrong. The chainsaw rips through your skin and blood spatters everywhere. You thrash around and hit your head on another rock and everything goes black.
The bright sun wakes you up and you notice that you have a splitting headache. You take a look around and notice that your on the floor of your bedroom surrounded by shards of a broken lamp that has been knocked off the dresser. You have no recollection of what had happened the night before, you can't even remember your dream, and you never will. …show more content…
Night terrors are horrific nightmares that may cause you to act them out in real life. Some motions can even simulate a panic attack or a seizure. They have a tendency to move and talk as if they were conscious. This type of behavior will continue until something drastic, such as walking into a door or falling out of bed, will wake them up. Most of the time when someone experiences a night terror, they think that it is just another nightmare. …show more content…
When having a nightmare, one can easily be awoken but when experiencing a night terror, this is like the 12 Labors of Hercules, impossible. Another difference is that when you have a nightmare, you can remember every petrifying detail with a vivid memory. When you have a night terror, most of the time you cannot remember any of the