Similarities Between Nightmares And Night Terrors

You’re at your friends sleepover and her brother and his friends are in the other room having there own sleepover. You watch a super freaky horror movie, and wake up in the middle of the night with a nightmare. After a while you finally go to sleep. Also happening that night, your friends brother and his friends watched a movie. When he wakes up the next morning and you and your friend tell him that last night him that he had sleepwalked into your friend’s room and screamed. You had tried to wake you up but he wouldn’t wake up, the only thing is he didn’t remember any of this. He had a night terror. Nightmares and night terrors are more different than similar.

In the beginning I was going to write about dreams and why we have them. One of the requirements to write about a certain topic is we had to have a page of notes on the topic. I used an online encyclopedia but it didn’t have information about dreams. Instead I saw something called night terrors and I decided to read about them. I learned that nightmares and night …show more content…
Nightmares are unpleasant dreams that have a vigorous emotional response. The dreams will usually have a discomfort or physical shock. Nightmares are uncommon in children under five, but are common in children. 25% of young kids struggle with nightmares at least once a week. When you have a nightmare 75% of the emotions are pessimistic.
Night terrors are a form of sleepwalking. When you have a night terror you don’t remember having or anything about it. You could possibly bolt right up with your eyes open, and scream. Someone could try to wake you up but you probably wouldn’t remember it anyways. After a night terror you fall asleep again quickly. Night terrors usually happen between toddler age to age seven or even longer. One episode can last five to forty-five minutes. The chance of night terrors happening to kids is 1 to 6%. For adults it is 1%. Night terrors are large unexplained