Night terrors, often known as sleep terrors, have a sure way of making us feel rattled. After all, who wants to have anything other than peaceful sleep? Unfortunately, for those of us experiencing night terrors, undisturbed sleep is hardly ever achieved. Night terrors are a form of sleep disturbance that occurs when your brain is partially asleep and partially awake.
They occur during non-REM sleep, often at the beginning of a sleep cycle, and can last up to 40 minutes. Unlike a nightmare where you wake up rattled from a bad dream, during a night terror, you’re left screaming and shaking but eventually fall back asleep. When you wake up, you likely have no recollection of what happened.
Night terrors, however, are not distinctly human. They can also happen to your beloved pets.
