Night Terror Definition:

Night terror is a phenomenon in which a person suddenly wakes up from his sleep. The person is not fully awakened and experience anxiety.

The person's awakening usually accompanies with moaning or screaming. After the night terror experience is over the person will get back to sleep without fully awakening.

The most common population who experience this night terror are kids at the ages of 2-6.

Night Terror Possible Reasons:

The kid is trying to deal with family problems, such as conflicts.

Night terror because of a trauma, the person experienced some kind of traumatic event.

Fever disease – might get the person to hallucinate.

Exhaustion- a person who is too exhausted might have problems to sleep well.

Night terror caused by emotional stress and disturbances- should be checked at the doctor.

Night Terror - The Phenomena:

Night Terrors Specified by sudden awakes about 2 hours after falling asleep. The person wakes up screaming, with violent behavior, and unawareness of the surrounding.

The night terror attack occurs for about 5-20 minutes and can sometimes last longer, up to 1 hour.
During the night terror attack the pupils of the eye will be expanded and the person will hyperventilate, sweat and the heartrate will increase.

The person will not be able to remember what happened at the night before.

Night Terror Treatment:

When a person experience night terror don't try to wake up the person. Hold him tight if possible until it is over. Make sure there is nothing nearby that can hurt the person when he has the night terror seizure. Also don't tell him about the event since he won't remember anything anyway.

Try to have the person sleep with someone else in the same room. Leaving a small light in the room and also leaving the door partly open can help.

The night terror phenomena will occur around the same time every night, around 12-2 AM so try to awake the person a few minutes before he is about to have the night terror seizure and let him fall asleep again.

If the night terrors don't seem to stop and are too much to bare, turn to a psychologist for consultant.

 

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