Marie Holmes is the parenting reporter at HuffPost. Her work has appeared in Scary Mommy, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post and other publications. She lives with her wife and their two children in New York City.
You wake in the middle of the night to the sound of your child’s screams. You run into their room, where you find them thrashing about their bed as though battling an invisible monster. You call their name, but they don’t respond.
The good news is that night terrors end without any intervention. “After a few minutes, or sometimes longer, the child calms down and goes back to sleep,” Miller said. “Night terrors in adults are often related to underlying anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder,” Miller said. He added that adults are also more likely to be injured during a night terror when they move around or get out of bed.
“Sleepwalking may be associated with night terrors, but it is not a night terror itself,” Miller said. Interestingly, while people are often able to recall their nightmares, they usually have no recollection of night terrors, sleepwalking or sleep talking. You may have heard that it is dangerous to awaken a person having a night terror. While it won’t physically harm the person, experts do recommend against it, as it can be disorienting for the child.
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