Oh Great, I have Night Terrors now...

wooooooh - HEAVY !!! I am just a little concerned here by all the creepy thing you guys have been saying... You don't think your game playing activities have anything to do with this. Maybe get valve to make a medical statement on the front of their games - "May induce sleep paralysis as well as night terrors resulting in violent terrifying deams and actual bodily harm"....:)

As for me, I don't dream and I sleep like a log (most of the time).... Sorry to hear your all suffering...
 
You'll never be scared of anything if you don't fear death. :)
 
I once had a night terror on vacation. I nearly smacked my girlfriend while she was trying to wake me up, and I woke up all the other people in the house.

Imagine having the scariest dream, half waking up and not being able to move and a shadow that moves slowly towards you mumbling something like "awwoooawwwaaa" . It took me about 5 mins to understand that that meant my gf saying "are you allright", after pounding and kicking her ;( Took me a week to explain that
 
mein Gott!!!

I had some when I was a kid I think, I still have a few shadows walking by my room by I usually have the good sense of turning on the lights(no, they don't go away, but it's better than with lights off...)
 
OoGoff said:
You'll never be scared of anything if you don't fear death. :)
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Actually death isn't the #1 fear in the world, it's the #2. The majority of people are more scared of public speaking than death.
 
Pressure said:
Actually death isn't the #1 fear in the world, it's the #2. The majority of people are more scared of public speaking than death.
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Hmmm, interesting. I read a story about a guy with sleep paralysis and night-terrors. At night he would wake up and be unable to move and it said he felt like the sheets were weighing him down. He wasn't able to move or anything, just like this. Sometimes it would happen at night, as usual, but sometimes it would also happen in the morning.

One of his memories of having night-terrors was one night, he was asleep next to his wife in bed and then out of nowhere he just awoke from slumber, but he couldn't move at all. He started panicking and tried to get the attention of his wife but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't do it. Then he started hearing the noises. A deep growl came from outside his window that was on his left side, just in his eyesight, then things began darting past the window back and forth really fast.
At this stage the guy said he was shitting himself and felt as if he was being possessed or that there was a poltergeist doing these things to him. More things began to move outside the window and growl's were becoming increasingly fierce and louder and louder. Then, as soon as it started, it stopped. The guy was able to sit-up and screamed his lungs out. His wife woke up (from the screaming of course) and he asked her is she heard any of that, and she said no. She didn't hear a thing

He goes on to tell about another account during the morning where the guy, again goes through the same thing and can't move but can see and hear everything going on. He said he wasn't able to move and then he started hearing a marching band going through his house. Then he saw his door and his drawer's open and shut rapidly and noisely. Again the guy shat himself, but just like before, it stopped. He;s able to get up and he goes down stairs and see's his wife eating breakfast and he asks her if she heard anything, Again, she said no.

I don't want to experience anything like that because that sounds absolutely terrifying, but it makes for a really cool story though.

Also i read another account from another guy who went through the same thing. He went on to get his house exorcised and it stopped........
 
I used to get night terrors as well, man they were scary, just lying there in bed and then you realise that you cannot move or talk loudly or anything. And then there was this absoultely chilling faint evil sounding laughter, and you see shadows jumping around the corner of the room and and moving past your window. This happened for a while, but how I stopped it was I remembered something that our school chaplain told us about demons and stuff, so when it next started happening I said "In the name of Jesus I command you to leave". And it did. Never happened again. I was raised an atheist, with no belief in god or anything, so I was suprised that it actually worked, but now I am convinced that it is demonic spirits that cause these things to happen.
 
InsaneCow said:
so when it next started happening I said "In the name of Jesus I command you to leave". And it did. Never happened again.
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Thou arth the one and only EXORCIST :cheers:
 
I have discovered something though. When I am very tired, things seem very far away when I look at them. Anyone else experience this? I think it has something to do with my terrors, I remember things being far away...
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omfg. just wow.

when i was small (<8 years old) i had one dream that REALLY freaked me out. and it was one with this sympton; everything seemed far away.

i can't quite remember the dream, but it sure as hell freaked me out. never had it again though. :(
 
I'm speechless. I was reading that website, and it just hit me like a sack of potatoes how freaky something like that must be. I can't imigine anything in the world more scary than having a bad dream, waking up, KNOWING you're awake(at least feeling it), and the nightmare be still ever present when you have that 'feeling of awareness' that you've woken up. Is that what it is?

That would probably scare me to death if it happened with one of my latest dreams. Any of you guys watch the Movie the IT? Its pretty scary, but its not terrible. I am freaked out by the clan, but I can watch it and look at pictures of him easily. Its when I sleep sometimes though, that he haunts my nightmares(probably because I think of him so much, cant get him out of my mind). In my dreams he's doing so many awful things to me, and I can actually 'feel' pain, like when i'm a dresser(clothes dresser with drawers. I know, its weird, its a dream), and he's sawing me apart with a rusty saw... I can actually *FEEL* that pain, it feels so real. But if that kind of thing still started happening, like I woke up to see pennywise the clown, that would freak the shit out of me no doubt :eek:

I'm thankful I don't have night terrors.
 
It says it runs in the family, so I don't have anything to worry about. :D
 
I read that Night Terror's site last night, @ about 2:00 AM just before going to bed. Not a good idea. I was absolutely shitting myself that I was going to have one, and it took me a good hour to get to sleep.

Reading some of the accounts on that site can send shivers up your spine! It sounds like being in a nightmare that you just can't wake up from. For example the usual tricks like pinching yourself and splashing your face with cold water sometimes don't even 'wake' you up from it.
 
Oh for the ****.. oh WHAT THE. Well guess what guys, after going to sleep today, I started SEEING things. This is last time I am reading other people’s dreams, gives my poor brain more imagination to scare shit out of me.

So going to sleep yesterday, I was total pussy (freaked out by stories) and decided to face a wall. So I did, and everything was okay, expect me getting scared off every little random sound, but I fell asleep. I woke up around 5:30 am, looked at the clock, yay getting up at 6:00 (work). So I am like, well I can lay on the back for the next 30 mins. BAD IDEA. I started to doze off and of course when I “woke up”, I couldn’t move and some shitty shadow wanted to strangle me with it’s tail. I tried t scream, nothing worked, but thanks god it lasted few seconds. Jesus, this will be LONG summer.

Oh and Ray_man, nor my mother or father EVER had experinces like these. So yeah, happy dreaming dude.
 
Shit son! Now I have to put this all in the back of my head and pray this never happens to me!
 
Okay, don't flame me...

I just read through this thread, and there's some awful shit you guys have experienced :( I've only had one nightmare that seemed like it was happening in real-life when I was 7 or something like that, so right now, I'm counting myself really fecking lucky.

I was telling my Dad about this thread, asking him if he'd ever heard of "night terrors", and he almost went pale, and he got freaked out almost I think. He then proceeded to tell me about experiences he and some of his colleagues (ministers) have had with people with 'night terrors' and exorcisms. Now I'm not turning this into a religion thing, or forcing anything on anyone, but considering he performed a witnessed exorcism only 3 weeks ago - and has heard multiple first-hand accounts of exorcisms from his colleagues - I'm willing to accept that demons and shit like that may be a plausible reason for 'night terrors' :( <-- That doesn't go to say that you guys are possessed lol, don't get me wrong.
 
dura said:
Sleep deprivation always triggers this in me.
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I guess you are right, I didn’t sleep enough last week at all, because it was crazy hot over here. I need to get out more.
 
leadfish said:
but considering he performed a witnessed exorcism only 3 weeks ago - and has heard multiple first-hand accounts of exorcisms
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What denomination is he? I didn't think the Catholic Church performed Exorcism's any more.
 
I once woke up during my sleep, and I "saw" spiders all over my room. Funny thing was that the room was pitch black so I couldn't really see shit. But for a while I was convinced that the place was crawling with them. That didn't last for long though. I realized pretty quickly that I'm hallucinating.
 
Hmm, after reading all these symptoms on here it seems like I've had night terrors and sleep paralysis'es quite alot of times, I have alot of memories of waking up and not being able to scream how hard I even tried and stuff like that.. I think my latest night terror was a few months ago, I remember "half"-waking up and instead of seeing my mum sitting by the chair next to my bed there was a black shadowed being or something, just sitting there looking at me, I felt like I was going to die or something, I couldn't move or scream or anything.. Then I blacked out for a short while and woke up and it was all back to normal.
 
All sleep deprivation does to me really is makes me sick, and makes it feel like things are crawling on me. That could be why people feel things are crawling on em when they sleep, who knows. For me, it only happens when i'm awake though.
 
whoa guys, thats some freaky shiate...I'm so gawd damn happy its not happend to me :p...btw whats "Stage 4" sleep ?
 
It's strange that it usually has something to do with a shadow, and/or spiders, snakes and rats.

Perhaps it is Demon’s that we can only see in that phase of sleep. There's a scary thought. If you read that Astral Projection thread certain people who've done research into the area believe that you 'leave' your body every night, perhaps 'Night Terror's' is where you're conscious on this other 'plane'.
 
mortiz said:
It's strange that it usually has something to do with a shadow, and/or spiders, snakes and rats.

Perhaps it is Demon’s that we can only see in that phase of sleep. There's a scary thought. If you read that Astral Projection thread certain people who've done research into the area believe that you 'leave' your body every night, perhaps 'Night Terror's' is where you're conscious on this other 'plane'.
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That's a pretty far out explanation. Night terrors and the like can be explained through science. Apparently sleep paralysis episodes are caused by a breakdown in one of the brains many self-defense mechanisms which is active while awake. This mechanism apparently keeps thoughts from the inner levels of your brain from crossing with areas processing information received from the seneses. So if you think of something scary your brain won't misinterpret it as an actual real-world event; it's only a thought and is handled by other areas. Here however the brain is in a state of sleeping and waking, so any nightmare you may have had is still continuing at a subconcious level while your concious side is starting to process sight and sound. Somewhere along the line the paths cross and your brain misfires and misinterprets normal stimuli and signals from the real world as threats from your subconcious images. So you misinterpret things that may really be happening as serious threats (a door opening, a household pet walking about, a shadow cast on the wall), or you see images that are still going on in the subconcious with your waking eyes. Apparently, due to the way sight works the brain has trouble creating totally realistic images. However, it can reproduce sounds at a totally realistic level even if you are 100% awake. That would explain the shadow figures, and the morphing shapes that come along with the very real sounds. People also share many fears in common which would explain all of the very similar sights and sounds. I could name probably 40 people that are afraid of snakes and spiders off hand. It's not a great leap to conclude that these fears manifest themselves in dreams.
 
I had one of them, i was dreaming that I saw a dog and I sneaked up to this tree and peeked past it to have a look at it and then it started to run up to me, I didnt think much of it until it lept up a proceeded to maul my face. Then I woke up in a sweat and had to hide under my cover because I seemed to think there was going to be dog come into my room and maul me to death :(
 
Fat Tony! said:
I had one of them, i was dreaming that I saw a dog and I sneaked up to this tree and peeked past it to have a look at it and then it started to run up to me, I didnt think much of it until it lept up a proceeded to maul my face. Then I woke up in a sweat and had to hide under my cover because I seemed to think there was going to be dog come into my room and maul me to death :(
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yea i hate when you dream your mind thinks the dream is real, so if i had a bad dream i wake still thinking i flunked school or got in trouble with the law

it takes me a good 3 or 4 min.s before i realize its just a dream.
 
Woah, I've experienced this too. Although phase four often is some sort of cat-like black beast with creepy-looking, yellow-glowing eyes. :eek:
(Must be because of that swedish child book "Alfons Åberg och Odjuret"). Man what nightmares that book have given me as a child. :/
 
A few times I've woken up and had the feeling that there's *something* outside my window, looking in at me through the curtains. Scares me shitless. Ugh. I have no idea why I get that feeling, but I do, and it's horrible since I don't want to move or close my eyes. This isn't a night terror, but it's pretty scary...

I think I must have a phobia of windows or something, since sometimes I just can't bring myself to walk past a certain window, for no reason. There's a window at the top of the stairs at my house, and at about 5am one morning I was getting ready to be picked up for a paintball tourney. I headed upstairs while listening to my CD player, and I just had to stop at the top before I reached the window cause I was too scared to pass, FOR NO DAMN REASON! I stood there for ages before finally plucking up the courage and running past. ;(

Actually, I can remember a couple times where I've just woken up, scared as hell and sweating all over, even though I don't remember dreaming anything frightning.

Don't you just hate it when you feel like you're falling, and you suddenly jolt awake? When that happens to me I end up jumping up and grabbing the bed. Heh, gives the cat a shock
 
I get that falling sensation alot, and its pretty freaky when it happens, because of the sudden jolt awake.

Speaking of dreams, not nessesarily on the topic of night terrors... what are some weird and or freaky reoccuring dreams you guys have? I have a couple...

One is pretty basic, being pulled out in the ocean trying to swim to shore but unable to. Pretty common one for me, and probably the reason i'm pretty afraid of swimming on the open ocean. heh.

I occasionally have reoccuring dreams where my teeth start falling out in the dream. This has nothing to do with your teeth though according to dream experts, and more has to do with feelings that you are neglecting yourself emotionally or something.

One dream I have that has reoccured alot, is where i'm picking up these VERY VERY tiny blue objects, that look like pills. THey are so unbelievably small, yet when I pick them up, they have a tremendous weight to them. I can actually feel the weight in the dream, and its a pretty funky feeling. I'm not talking insanely heavy, just like a pill sized object weighing about 5-10 pounds.

Some scary ones I have had, are me in an old house, dark and spooky inside, and I always come into a room where there is a shadowy figure sitting in a dark dark room, and i'm paralized with fear.

Another one, quite often reoccuring is where i'm in my house, and i'm walking around, I go into the restroom or something, walk past the mirror and all of a sudden horrors start jumping from the mirrors and terrifying the hell out of me. I get these sensations of incridible fear in the dream, like i'm screaming, and I keep running around and I keep getting these horrors that try to scare me to death at every turn.

One, more recent, is of Pennywise the Dancing Clown from Stephen King's "IT". He seems to be haunting my dreams quite often lately, and its pretty damn scary. Every time i'm in the shower now, I can just picture him speaking to me from the drain, then the spout coming out at me and the drain opening up and him pulling himself out to get me... or if i'm walking past an opened curtain window, I picture him in my mind that he's standing out there pointing at me with his evil face. <shudders>

Pretty weird huh?
 
Raziaar said:
One is pretty basic, being pulled out in the ocean trying to swim to shore but unable to. Pretty common one for me, and probably the reason i'm pretty afraid of swimming on the open ocean. heh.
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Heh, that happened to me in real life, riptides are not fun.
 
Raziaar said:
I occasionally have reoccuring dreams where my teeth start falling out in the dream. This has nothing to do with your teeth though according to dream experts, and more has to do with feelings that you are neglecting yourself emotionally or something.
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I have that dream sometimes too.

And there's another one where I for no reason is on fire and there is always a fireman with a hose standing next to me. I keep yelling at him to give me the friggin hose, but he just keeps ignoring me. :flame:
 
qckbeam said:
That's a pretty far out explanation. Night terrors and the like can be explained through science. Apparently sleep paralysis episodes are caused by a breakdown in one of the brains many self-defense mechanisms which is active while awake. This mechanism apparently keeps thoughts from the inner levels of your brain from crossing with areas processing information received from the seneses. So if you think of something scary your brain won't misinterpret it as an actual real-world event; it's only a thought and is handled by other areas. Here however the brain is in a state of sleeping and waking, so any nightmare you may have had is still continuing at a subconcious level while your concious side is starting to process sight and sound. Somewhere along the line the paths cross and your brain misfires and misinterprets normal stimuli and signals from the real world as threats from your subconcious images. So you misinterpret things that may really be happening as serious threats (a door opening, a household pet walking about, a shadow cast on the wall), or you see images that are still going on in the subconcious with your waking eyes. Apparently, due to the way sight works the brain has trouble creating totally realistic images. However, it can reproduce sounds at a totally realistic level even if you are 100% awake. That would explain the shadow figures, and the morphing shapes that come along with the very real sounds. People also share many fears in common which would explain all of the very similar sights and sounds. I could name probably 40 people that are afraid of snakes and spiders off hand. It's not a great leap to conclude that these fears manifest themselves in dreams.
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:upstare:

Yes, but my explanation is more fun :D
 
I just saw the most horrid picture in another thread...I removed the link...But now I'm probably gonna have dreams about it. Everytime i close my eyes i can see it there.
 
Yeah, that kinda stuff sticks with your for a while, unfortunately. Someone sent me a prank video in my e-mail of a faces of death video or something in the past, and that kinda traumatized me for a while, and I felt like I was going to literally throw up, and had that feeling for about 3 weeks :(

Sorry bud :(



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I've woken up but can't move many times. But i've never seen anything strange whe this happens. I like trying to move my arm or any other part of my body, then just seeing them sit there, somehow funny to me. One time though, my tongue was at the back of my throat and I woke up and couldn't move my tongue to breathe through my mouth, my nose at that time was stuffed up, so I started to panic and pass out because of lack of oxygen, when I came to I was all fine, but strange none the least. I have lucid dreams almost all the time though, so they are always fun.
 
I saw that nick berg video, and felt sick to my stomach, I kinda blocked it out of my mind now though.
 
After a while you just live with things like that...But each thing like that changes something inside, even if its only a tiny amount you will never be quite the same again.
 
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