For the past two weeks, I've had nothing but nightmares. You're not alone.

The one thing I told my dr. when I felt like I was BP was that I had violent, graphic thoughts and eventually they would come to me before I tried sleeping, in the dark. As if I didn't have enough sleep problems, i started to get scared of the dark and sleeping because these violent images would keep me from falling asleep. i somestimes have bad dreams, but it mostly happens right before i sleep.

I get lots of nightmares some are flashbacks some just key into my fears. Penmaster, my psych said the ones before you go to sleep are called hypnogogic hallucinations. I get visual, auditory and sensory ones.

I used to have them, but I have to keep praying them away. I know how exhausting they can make you.
Flower

Night terrors are not the same as nightmares. Usually only children have night terrors. The child wakes and gets out of bed, walks around with eyes open and appears to be awake. The child will be very agitated, angry or fearful. Anything done in this state is not remembered. When my brother would have them I would ask him questions and he would answer but not in a way that was normal. He did not grow out of them and it continued in his adulthood. It was always scary to see him doing something that could possibly hurt himself; like cooking for example.

My mother said my brother did that ince when he was little. He tryed to cook pasta and boil eggs. It was a mess of corse. The eggs were tightly packed on so they shot up and hit the celing and the pasta overboiled and there was to much in there also. My poor mother. SAhe went back to bed and cleaned the mess in the morning.

I actually went to the ER a week ago because my night terrors, which began suddenly about a week before Christmas, had gotten so bad that I woke up from them, now more than once, cutting myself on the thighs and upper arm with a disposable shaving razor.

And, yes, like Bjork said, night terrors and nightmares are very different things. For one things, nightmares often wake the person in the middle, and they remember them. In a night terror, the person cannot be woken by exterior means, and often incorporates the person trying to wake them as part of the terror.

While night terrors in adults and children SEEM to be the same, the CAUSES are different. A lot of children get night terrors; they usually grow out of them. In adults, there seems to be a link between night terrors and physical/sexual/emotional abuse or PTSD. There's also been a study linking night terrors with hypoglycemia.

When I go into a terror, I have no idea where I am or what I'm doing. My boyfriend says my breathing gets rapid, I begin to pull away from him physically, and if he tries to touch me often I start screaming, writhing, trying to "escape" if I'm not already, and he has to hold me down. Sometimes I fight him for up to half an hour, then all of a sudden, I'm there again, I'm awake.

It is a bad idea to try to wake a person in a night terror. Elflet it sounds like your boyfriend is doing the right thing in that he doesn't try to wake you but keeps you from hurting yourself. Have you been prescribed anything to help you sleep?

I do something really weird. I talk to my husband in the middle of the night and curse him out. Apparently I am extremely mean. I can't remember a single thing in the morning. I've also started getting up in the middle of the night telling him I want something to eat or drink. Often I'm back asleep when he returns.
I'm really concerned about the talking in my sleep.

Normally, I would be one to say that I don't have memorable dreams at all let alone nightmares or terrors. I have lately though, since starting to go through a lot of emotional stress with my wife and her break out need of mental healing, I have been having more. not to promote my journal or anything, but something i plan on posting tonight is a story of one of my dreams from the other day. I also had another dream last night (although by now i can't remember it but it was semi related again to what is happening in my life right now).

Something that may be helpful for you to check into is some dream sites. See if your dreams are trying to tell you something, but many adults do dream and still have nightmares/terrors. They usually relate to our "wake state" though and have hidden meanings. I'm not the best advice giver but i hope this helped you sleep a little better :)

I don't think any dream sites would cover what my dreams are. I've had this 'theam' of dreams for the longest time. The dreams are diffrent then when I was young but still relove around violence. It's my constance copianion. I get told to put my past behind but it won't allow it. My abuse never leaves me so I always suffer from it. I can sometimes recall dreams that I've had in my early childhood(when I was around 7 and up). Being a creative person I've never known a time when I didn't dream and most of my dreams relove around a story of sorts with me as a vigelinty/avenger of sorts protecting people who have been abused. I just want to be 'normal' in some way. I don't feel or dream like most people.