Demons or nightmares? A history of night terrors | Alice Vernon | TEDxAberystwyth

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  • Опубликовано: 15 янв 2025

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  • @robertherlihy917
    @robertherlihy917 Год назад +10

    As someone who suffered some of the most extreme cases of night terrors during a kid, this was fascinating.

    • @globalheart
      @globalheart Год назад

      Me too, totally..but this is nonsense.

  • @gracengere329
    @gracengere329 Год назад +8

    Growing up, my sister used to sleep walk, and now my 15 year old does it too. Weird.
    Very interested topic.

  • @밥먹듯영어
    @밥먹듯영어 Год назад

    유용한 강의입니다, 메리 크리스마스🎄 Merry Christmas

  • @mangantasy289
    @mangantasy289 6 месяцев назад

    Great and very interesting talk.
    I have severe mental health issues, including cPTSD, have frequent nightmares, sometimes night terrors, have occasional lucid dreaming (actually pretty cool) and worst of all, experience sleep paralysis every now and then. And even knowing what these are while they happen cannot take away all of the terrifying quality that they have. I 100% understand how people interpreted them before science could give the answers what they really are.
    Apparently I also toss and turn, talk, cry, whine and all but scream in my sleep. I Live alone, but that's what my roomates would report to me every time I had to be hospitalized these last years.

  • @noi000
    @noi000 Год назад +4

    Some say seeing beings or something in a dream can be a true experience.

  • @mr.giggles4995
    @mr.giggles4995 Год назад +5

    Cheese actually contains a naturally occuring opiod called casein. Opiods/opiates can cause extremely vivid dreams, hypnogognic imagery, and sleep paralysis. I know from first hand experience. Cheese might be capable of inducing those things too though, idk.

  • @catshoebags248
    @catshoebags248 Год назад +9

    I have had sleep paralysis and I think it was related to acid reflux. I got helicobacter and it went on for a very long time. When the acid came up it woke me up in the middle of a sleep and I was completely paralysed. I was terrified. When my acid cleared up so did the sleep paralysis . It appears to happen when sleep is disrupted. I have had the worst experiences with someone on my back and doing terrible things to me. I had to move my toes to get out of the trance and pray that the thing would go away. It was honestly the worst time of my life. I don’t know if it was the stress of feeling terrible or waking mid sleep.

    • @carinasanchez9860
      @carinasanchez9860 Год назад

      You need spiritual answers

    • @Rajeevmaths
      @Rajeevmaths Год назад +1

      Don't worry it's normal. I have experienced many time and as you have reminded me of that.. this time in india, it's 3 am.. if im going to sleep I might experience the same😅

  • @EmpathyMattersforEveryone
    @EmpathyMattersforEveryone 2 месяца назад

    I know of several people who suffer from these, too include children! I think trauma and stress have a lot to do with it.

  • @Melchizedek7771
    @Melchizedek7771 Год назад +6

    Has anyone else felt that their quality of sleep has diminished the last few years, especially the latest?

    • @unpopuIaropinion
      @unpopuIaropinion Год назад +2

      put the screen down about 1 hour before bed, and read a book. Trust me.

  • @Connor-j7l
    @Connor-j7l 7 месяцев назад

    Yup..stress I think.😐

  • @Isa_Dark_
    @Isa_Dark_ Год назад +3

    Sometimes healthy people (I mean, without a disease or illness that can affect sleep) we say: I can't sleep well
    But our sleep routine is awful or even people don't know anything about it.
    When we try to follow a sleep routine, everything seems to improve❤

  • @busratozluk
    @busratozluk Год назад

    I don't know if anyone has sleep paralysis before nightmares like me. My sleep paralysis is a little different from other people. At least in Turkey, other people cannot only move and speak during sleep paralysis. I hear, see and feel sounds in addition to these. I give my imagination that mine is a little different :,) the last time I had it 10 minutes ago. this time it was extremely simple. it went away after I could move my foot. for a moment I thought I would experience action again, I was scared.
    I have heard that this situation is generally more common in people who stay in dormitories as children or adolescents, and when I asked the people who experienced it, I saw that the majority is like that.
    The next time it happened again in the same months and I heard a voice (there was a girl who laughed loudly in high school, I heard the voices of other people in the class, her voice being more dominant. they were not saying anything specific). my sleep paralysis adventure continued to come in a different and more effective way over time and after a while it started to decrease. it must have come probably 30 times until this time. it took a terrible form when hallucinations were added later.
    My religious culture teacher said 'you may be seeing this nightmare with the effect of a vitamin that is missing in your body'.

    • @jessicaleyva7783
      @jessicaleyva7783 Год назад

      I go through this i tell my husband and he says it’s just a dream but I say no I hear some before I get paralyzed then I get paraythen I have the nightmare and it’s so vivid I also sleep talk and my toddler does to he sleep talks

    • @busratozluk
      @busratozluk Год назад

      @@jessicaleyva7783 We're going through the same thing. I have many memories like this.

    • @busratozluk
      @busratozluk Год назад

      Maybe it's linked to stress and anxiety.

    • @civil7139
      @civil7139 Год назад

      I used to have this sleep paralysis so frequently that it made me dread sleeping. It was a terrible experience.
      As a Christian, it was even more challenging cause talking about was a sign of a lack of spiritual maturity or at least that's how I felt.
      With God's help. How? His word. I let go of the fear of the dreams. So at some point, when I have them, I don't struggle to try to wake up, I just consciously wait it out. It not comfortable cause mine comes sometimes with this strange feeling of me being electrocuted.
      Long story short, four steps I would suggest you take if you struggling with this.
      1. Get close to God. Understand that Jesus died for you so you can have life abundantly and peace. He has all authority so nothing can harm you.
      2. Sleep paralysis does not have to be more than a dream. No matter how strange it is or feel. It's just an harmless dream. You better believe that.
      3. If you have it, once you awake let that be the end of it. Don't let it ruin your day or emotions.
      4. Sleep early if you can. A good bedtime will do you a lot of good. Bedtimes are not just for kids. We adults probably need it more.
      For me, sleep paralysis it's an insignificant phenomenon that I don't give as much importance to as I used to.
      I hope this helps you sleep better.

  • @dk.650
    @dk.650 Год назад +1

    Too many terrifyingly movies today influence dreams, thought about it before she also mentioned it.
    However as a child I used to often dream about fireballs falling from the sky, went on from about 5 to 13.
    Eating well before bed, especially a steak helps me rest well. Best time for the body to replenish itself with natural complete whole food.

    • @alertbri
      @alertbri Год назад +2

      Don't go to bed with undigested food in your stomach. Stop eating 3hrs before bed. You'll find you sleep much better.

  • @HFleming1
    @HFleming1 Год назад +10

    Call Jesus! He will come and rescue you! The demons doesn’t have any power over you when you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
    Luke 10:19-20 (NIV) “I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

    • @cfisher466
      @cfisher466 10 месяцев назад +1

      True, I have one this myself during sleep paralysis. Definitely works.

  • @eleonora_vappolewild2132
    @eleonora_vappolewild2132 Год назад

    After, complete awake

  • @eleonora_vappolewild2132
    @eleonora_vappolewild2132 Год назад +1

    A sleep paralysis. 30 minutes

  • @romeovelasco4151
    @romeovelasco4151 Год назад +2

    Dreams are God's way of talking to us in a multitude of business. Whatever the dream is, good or bad, it motivates us to rely on Him to have peace of mind. Cast all your cares to God and He will give you rest... 🙏🕊️

  • @Kozaiyan
    @Kozaiyan Год назад +1

    Aj is the nightmare

  • @AmongRevenants
    @AmongRevenants Год назад

    I have suffered the terror paralysis a couple times. But my worst dreams were like a short repetitive loop played over and over.
    A dream, could take the form of me...
    chasing a ghost up and down the floors of our house, over and over. I would attempt to yell at the ghost in my sleep but only slurred speech. Until my wife would wake up to me yelling and swearing at the ghost.
    or being stuck in deep water(another paralysis subject) outside my town's harbor surrounded by floating nuclear missiles only I could disarm. But I could barely move my hands.
    The worst dreams for me though are the mundane, repeating an action over and over. Something simple like moving the same chess game piece on a game board, in an identical manner, over and over the entire night, until it drove me insane.
    I would be wrecked and exhausted waking up. And I would lose my ability to sleep for a day or two. Once went three days working 12 hour shifts with no sleep. Day three I didn't even remember driving to work.
    Waking dreams, mundane or horrific, are what nightmares are made of.

  • @akamai2075
    @akamai2075 Год назад +1

    Alice, please do NOT use the phrase “Don’t try it at home” in your future presentations”. This parasite is not just annoying. It brings your otherwise excellent research down to tabloid level.

  • @jonr6680
    @jonr6680 Год назад

    Parasomnia = freaky sleep?? Trust the medical professionals to name it in latin, job done!

  • @beaauthor5253
    @beaauthor5253 Год назад

    audibly na

  • @houdaboukhecha1832
    @houdaboukhecha1832 Год назад +1

    جربي التأمل أو الصوم أو صلاة المسلمين وتختفي كوابيسك

  • @Connor-j7l
    @Connor-j7l 7 месяцев назад

    👀 oh dear.....milabs?....abductions?😐😑😐..

  • @Connor-j7l
    @Connor-j7l 7 месяцев назад

    These scientific types have such a narrow or specialised way of looking at something..that they miss most of whats really going on..shame really. 😴

  • @arthurcortez6853
    @arthurcortez6853 Год назад +1

    It’s demonic possession

  • @groznyentertainment
    @groznyentertainment Год назад

    Imagine her boyfriend hearing this for the first time!