What is the difference between Nightmares and Night Terrors?

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  • Опубликовано: 7 янв 2025

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  • @edgarallanbro9624
    @edgarallanbro9624 5 лет назад +346

    If you’ve ever had a night terror, you would know the difference between a nightmare and a night terror, a nightmare is a comedy show , and a night terror feels like your life is in danger and you have to escape .

    • @andir8119
      @andir8119 5 лет назад +29

      Israel Miller
      Indeed nightmates are like a horror-movie, i can even really enjoy that
      But night-terrors are basiacly near-death experiences, really traumatizing.

    • @numbersletters2920
      @numbersletters2920 5 лет назад +5

      I don't care i want treatment .just because yours is worse never means nightmare is comedy.my mom gone throgh a nightterror just scared by holding on me for no rational reason. It was hell mom should have never done that.mom horrified me i had no where to move if you have a nightterror take some strong medication because your terrify your children.

    • @itssweet2125
      @itssweet2125 5 лет назад +5

      I have night terrors for 2 years and it is scary

    • @BrownieBatterKing
      @BrownieBatterKing 4 года назад +3

      Your too right

    • @pisces1017
      @pisces1017 4 года назад +8

      You feel like you are awake. If you have enough of them, you know you're not awake but that doesn't make it any easier.

  • @Grantorius
    @Grantorius 7 лет назад +70

    I don't sleep that well because I know that when I do fall asleep I will have essentially the same kind of nightmare
    every single time. I wish I could eliminate my dreaming entirely.

    • @monicadeana4586
      @monicadeana4586 5 лет назад +3

      Grantorius I’ve heard of you tell people your night mare it makes it not come back.

  • @wyattbunnell8083
    @wyattbunnell8083 5 лет назад +114

    So night terrors can make it seem like your still having it even after you have regained consciousness? Or a woken

    • @andir8119
      @andir8119 5 лет назад +42

      Wyatt Bunnell
      They are basiacly real hallucinations.
      You can't distinguish them from reality.

  • @KEBinAZ
    @KEBinAZ 6 лет назад +24

    Foster families deal with night terrors alot. My foster son 4, is having severe night terrors. He screams loud and sometimes he gets up and has what appears to be a big tantrum too. Is completely inconsolable also, I have learned do not lose your temper and do not try to.' Stop' it. Trauma and abuse can certainly trigger night terrors. A sleep study needs to be done on your child. A pediatrician can refer you. I am going to end up getting one for my foster son. They usually occur around the same time each night and can happen 2, 3x a night too. When they stay in bed and just cry it out is better. When they get up and are verbal and combative, that is really hard to deal with. Child's therapist knows, and so does case manager but not a whole lot can be done except try and see if there are triggers. Get him to bed early, turn on white noise, and some parents say to keep track of what times they occur and wake child before it happens. My foster son will have a night terror if I wake him, so that doesn't work. I have only had him 7 weeks. His sister talks in her sleep and is also not a great sleeper but does not have night terrors. I hope they get better and become less frequent. There are nights he doesn't have them and those are great.

  • @drewmadenew3000
    @drewmadenew3000 5 лет назад +45

    I have at least one night terror every single night. I am a 33-year-old man. In my early 20s it got so bad that I actually attempted suicide because of them. I was so frightened to go to sleep that I forced myself to stay awake until I basically had a break with reality. No one can seem to help me. I have just learned to except them. The crazy part is I have had thousands of them, and I don’t remember one single detail of any of them. So bizarre.

    • @kiairelle9383
      @kiairelle9383 5 лет назад +3

      Andrew I have night terrors as well, how do the people around you respond to them

  • @andir8119
    @andir8119 5 лет назад +15

    When i have night-terrors i am very aware of my situation but that makes it even scarier.
    However it helps with accepting it.

  • @GZarou-dr7vy
    @GZarou-dr7vy 5 лет назад +15

    When I was little - around 6-7, I had a recurring nightmare. I can still remember the images, and the deelinf I had. I would wake up crying and would throw up. My parents had to calm me down. I remember being in our bathroom, the weird feeling the cold tile gave me and feeling extraordinarily weird-I had to sake my hands to try to get the feeling pit of my body. My brothers hated me for waling them up. That helped the situation - duh

  • @triple7marc
    @triple7marc 4 года назад +15

    So basically night terrors are nightmares that continue after you wake up, but you’re still stuck in the dream.

  • @dr.madhar6533
    @dr.madhar6533 5 лет назад +43

    Good information. I am 25 years old and I am a doctor myself. I have alot of stress in my life and sometimes I have to work by staying awake all night. I get night terrors and nightmares both. Night terrors are horrible because I end up screaming and which makes my parents sad, and being indians they think that I am possessed 😂. I have figured one particular thing about terrors, that is they sometimes require trigger like if you leg will fall from bed and hit the floor that impulse can trigger a terror episode. This is my personal experience. For treatment healthy sleeping habits and stress management is required like do some meditation.

  • @Joe-fd4qo
    @Joe-fd4qo 5 лет назад +11

    Had one last night where I thought some creature jumped down from the ceiling onto my chest, and started choking me. I woke up swinging.

  • @kenneychappuis1853
    @kenneychappuis1853 4 года назад +9

    I’m 54 years old and I have night terrors. I will start yelling and screaming at something in my sleep my wife tries to wake me to help me. I really really hate night terrors. To think a grown man so scared he starts screaming

  • @Kaigirl27
    @Kaigirl27 4 года назад +1

    Dr. Grande your videos have been getting better and better with time. Still stalking your old videos.

  • @lizhewes6063
    @lizhewes6063 5 лет назад +2

    Both of my sons had night terrors around the age of 9 or 10 and they always occurred about 2 hours after going to bed. At first we just thought our eldest was getting up to use the bathroom but then he started wandering around the house and saying very weird things. Nothing I said would get through to him mentally but I could physically guide him back to bed.
    With my younger son it just presented with him crying out in his sleep but when I went into his room to soothe him he didn't speak to me or even move. He is 11 now and he will occasionally yell in his sleep but it's rare.
    I believe time of night is important. Night terrors always happened 2-3 hours after going to sleep, whereas nightmares always happened right before it was time to wake up, like 5 am.

  • @carmenfiduk9716
    @carmenfiduk9716 3 года назад +1

    30 years old here and I have some form of night terrors. It's better now after I've gotten therapy, but I would have weeks we're I would scream bloody murder in my sleep. My fiance would have to gently soothe my arm (im a light sleeper too) for me to wake up. I'd immediately fall back asleep and remember nothing the next morning until he told me. It was horrible because I wasn't getting enough rest and I wasn't allowing my fiancé to get enough rest. I knew it was my PTSD because I had symptoms in my waking life flaring up. So I called up my therapist and started up treatment again. They've stopped for the most part, but I still get one ever could of months.

  • @brendanhoffmann8402
    @brendanhoffmann8402 3 месяца назад

    I've had night terrors for as long as I can remember. I act out kicking and punching, grabbing. The only thing I found that stops it is cannabis (High CBD low THC). I had a lot of violence in my life the first 20 years of my life. After your explanation it's clear that its nightmares but violent ones. I have PTSD and a lot of trauma.

  • @davidyip5557
    @davidyip5557 2 года назад +1

    I had night terrors as a kid. It wasn't pleasant ar all. I had one at a sleep over when I was 9. You can imagine how that went.

  • @TheTeek_chewie
    @TheTeek_chewie 5 лет назад +2

    Mine used to last around 15 mins - 2 hours, the worst thing that I have ever experienced. Even got told I tried to grab knives and other things around the house, I’d also ask my parents if it was okay to swear and if always say I loved them during it. Scary shit

  • @metricdeep8856
    @metricdeep8856 2 месяца назад

    Perception was distorted to the extent beyond comprehension. Visual and auditory distortions that I just could not understand. My curtains looked so massive yet stretched to infinity visually. My fingers felt like planets that were so close they could rub against each other. It means nothing by its description……but when you know it’s real…..it’s so un-normal. Everything was distorted to an extreme. Sounds would be whisper soft and miles away, then suddenly rush in like thunder and be right inside your head….vicious words and emotions…just swirling and dive bombing your senses. From silence to absolute deafening levels….from moment to moment. The fear that this creates is immeasurable. Nothing makes sense to your senses. Nothing prompted or prevented them. I got older…..and the feeling of changing/distorted perceptions became fascinating and I actually tried to encourage the onset…..out of curiosity. I was still fearful…..but old enough to know nothing was truly a real threat to me physically. The fear was not of physical harm….but more like an unending doom and fear…..maybe worse than death. They went away and never came back. Once I got genuinely curious about it…..it stopped. I thought later that it could have been my senses attempting to calibrate themselves…..and just being off the mark. They didn’t have bad intentions…..they just growing differently than the rest of me. They sure felt like hell was present in every normal everyday things. It was truly awful. Always happened just after bedtime as I fell asleep. Terror is a nasty place. I think I was about about 7-10 yrs when this took place. I would just cry helplessly and want to be in my parents bed….but could still not stop crying. Maybe this makes sense to someone else. I have never had anyone else know this same experience. Just sharing as it may help someone know they aren’t alone. I will paste this on many of these sites in hopes it may help.

  • @chingalachuga6737
    @chingalachuga6737 3 года назад +1

    I have horrible night terrors that started when I joined the navy but got worse after I gave birth to my first son. I can remember I'd say 99% of my nightterrors once I snap out of it or "wake up". A lot have recurring themes like snakes or spiders in the room, or looking for my 2nd kid when I only have 1. Some are so scary I am gasping for air eyes wide open, some I FLY out of bed and run around the house panicking, some I end up sobbing. Now I'm so used to them that my brain can actually snap out of it sooner when it realizes I'm acting crazy. Like I'll run around and then be like, ok what exactly am I looking for I dont really remembering ever having that, and ok just go back to bed

  • @JocieFire
    @JocieFire Год назад

    My son got night terrors as a child and then sleep paralysis when he was a teen. He has narcolepsy, night terrors as a child are associated with a greater likelyhood of narcolepsy.

  • @HjalleCalibursChannel
    @HjalleCalibursChannel Год назад

    As someone with ptsd, I can confirm that both nightmares and nightterrors happens... and with a already overburdened mind, they can destroy your whole day!

  • @urshamsheer-8283
    @urshamsheer-8283 Год назад

    I just had Night terrors that made me feel like I am not able to move speak or scream and getting suffocated 😢 It usually happens when I drink for the whole week or 10days or this time it was for more than 20days straight without having anything no meal just drink 3-4 times a day before I thought it was because of the withdrawal when I am trying to quit drinking for for a few months. But usually it just happens the next night of quitting that's it. And after that it doesn't. I hope this information could help someone so shared with you 🙏

  • @jamestygz3109
    @jamestygz3109 2 года назад

    I use to have night terrors when I was a kid , I think my last night terrors was when I was 14 , I did some crazy things when I had them , One time I ripped the bathrooms mirror off the wall, and the time I tried shoving my face through the television , I still remember my face pressed up against the television with static playing , Night terrors literally feel like you're in hell , like actual hell, just terrible impending doom , that's the best way I can describe a night terror.

  • @flickiow24
    @flickiow24 4 года назад +1

    I've had 4/5 episodes of sleep paralysis, first time I was so scared, subsequently I recognised it for what is was... Not a nightmare /terror but such a strange experience.

  • @santandersepulveda
    @santandersepulveda Год назад

    wish you went back to do this kind of vids

  • @jamielee3275
    @jamielee3275 5 лет назад +11

    But I remembered my night terror.

  • @tri935
    @tri935 4 года назад

    i am in my 30s . my night terrors cause me to wake up screaming and terrified. . this happens frequently. the dreams are usually straightforward. ie. no violence or sinister. but my fear of existing whilst awake manifests into terror whilst asleep.

  • @jayzenstyle
    @jayzenstyle 4 месяца назад

    I'm currently suffering night terrors. I don't mind nightmares, because I can quickly distinguish dream from reality.
    Night terrors is screwing with my perception, because I can move my head literally and have one eye open but my whole body is paralyzed. This feeling of helplessness while a dark entity is sitting on my hips is raising my heartbeat to abnormal levels that I CONSCIOUSLY try to calm down while being angry at the distorted entity human thing sitting on my body.
    When I finally wake up, I am in an extremely bad mood, seeking revenge or punching the pillow because I wanted to 'off' the entity so bad.

  • @lannyogarro1609
    @lannyogarro1609 5 лет назад +4

    Its 3:24 in the morning!! Something was in my room licking on my skin! I wake up trying to dig into their skin n saying stop!!! Whats going on!!!

  • @ownsil4864
    @ownsil4864 4 года назад +1

    My girl friend and I both have PTSD and we have night terrors all the time and they are so horrifying

  • @jamnoise72
    @jamnoise72 4 года назад +2

    I had one last night it has shaken me up so much :(

  • @kijxy
    @kijxy Год назад

    I've had night terrors since I was 5, probably younger. I'm 38 now. Its caused by sleep apnea for me

  • @kathelenora1493
    @kathelenora1493 Год назад

    Ephesians 6:12 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

  • @AspergersversusNeurotypicals
    @AspergersversusNeurotypicals 5 лет назад +1

    If one yells during your nightmare, and spouse shakes them awake, and they are "disoriented (sleepy) with a vague memory of the scary 'chase scene'" , does that have a specific diagnosis, or is that a hybrid condition. does the yelling-while-asleep point to night terror or sleep paralysis, and the memory of dream point to nightmare? is this non-diagnosable?

  • @Foxiepawstotti
    @Foxiepawstotti 3 года назад +1

    I have recently had two night terrors. I suffer from anxiety and the whole COVID thing has been stressing me as I have co-morbidities and pretty much know that it would be the death of me. I have been woken twice recently by my partner, screaming and terrified for no obvious reason. Its horrible and obviously terrifies my partner too. Is there something that can be for this or am I stuck with it?

  • @catherinepalmer8012
    @catherinepalmer8012 5 лет назад +1

    is night terrors like waking up but u sill asleep but u darkside your eyes open crying trying wake up

  • @bevilhive
    @bevilhive 5 лет назад +9

    I have dayterrors.

  • @zoofn4441
    @zoofn4441 4 года назад

    most of the time i get night terrors when i'm like really sick but i don't remember them i've only heard story's of it from my parents and my siblings

  • @Starz_sparklz
    @Starz_sparklz 8 месяцев назад

    my brother literally just had a night terror not to long ago

  • @fmachss
    @fmachss 6 лет назад +20

    One topic that I find very interesting and also very confusing is Sleep Paralysis. Maybe that would interest you Dr. Grande and you could make a video about it. Thanks.

  • @wyattbunnell8083
    @wyattbunnell8083 5 лет назад +3

    Can PTSD cause night terrors?

    • @beegood6700
      @beegood6700 5 лет назад +2

      Yes

    • @andir8119
      @andir8119 5 лет назад +5

      Wyatt Bunnell I feel like night-terrors can cause PTSD

    • @harrieta6961
      @harrieta6961 5 лет назад

      How do you manage /cure night terrors from ptsd x

  • @AbsolutelyCasual
    @AbsolutelyCasual 5 лет назад +2

    I'm 28. Lately I've been having extremely vivid nightmares. Usually about me being prisoner, hostage, or kidnapped situation, I can usually remember the entire dream that seems to last days and sometimes very emotional things happen. Usually somthing happening to a relative and when I wake up I realize I've been crying in my sleep. My eyes and face and pillow are soaked and I can just feel that I was crying while I was asleep. I've never been abused really and nothing I can thing of in my past would trigger theese thoughts. I also suffer occasionally from sleep paralysis. I am on a semi opiate type medication that gives me slight euphoria when I'm tired and I feel like that may be putting me into waking dreams that I'm not aware of the fact I'm awake. What's your input?

    • @AbsolutelyCasual
      @AbsolutelyCasual 5 лет назад

      Ps I've been on the meds for 3 years and this doesnt seem to be linked to it but I'm not sure what else It could be. But when i wake up i feel awful as if i actually lived thru it. I know it wasnt real right away but it still leaves me shaken

    • @AbsolutelyCasual
      @AbsolutelyCasual 5 лет назад

      One thing I can think of that makes me not sleep well is working 1st shift and being notorious for sleeping thru my alarm and often jolting awake just to check that almost like my body is trying to prevent me from sleeping thru the night to stop me from sleeping too sound

    • @vietbreeder8341
      @vietbreeder8341 5 лет назад

      Some mystics say that it was your past lives events

  • @auntresho6067
    @auntresho6067 5 лет назад

    I have night terrors constantly

  • @bell1180
    @bell1180 4 года назад

    I have night terrors if I have sugar before I go to bed

  • @randomized9871
    @randomized9871 5 лет назад

    I am getting more and more night terror. Iam 13

  • @pizdanpula223
    @pizdanpula223 5 лет назад

    Nothing new under the sun

  • @rando42069
    @rando42069 3 года назад +1

    I have to sleep on my side with an arm under my pillow or I'll end up hitting my partner in bed. It's insane. I feel like sleep apnea could be a possible cause for at least some episodes of what we think are sleep paralysis. Once I woke myself up screaming against Satan 😳 my partner was quite scared

  • @andrewattenboroughtwothumb4697
    @andrewattenboroughtwothumb4697 4 года назад

    there is a psychic reason why I still get them now and again because I have psychic abilities that are connected to it