Night Terrors vs Nightmares - How To Tell The Difference

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✨ UNLOCK YOUR BRAIN'S FULL POTENTIAL! My free 2-minute quiz reveals your unique "Brain Operating System" and gives you a personalized guide to master your focus, handle stress, and perform at your best. Take the Quiz → https://drmarks.co/BrainQuiz-yt Night terrors (also called sleep terrors) are parasomnias. Parasomnias can occur during rapid eye movement (REM sleep), or they can occur during the non-REM sleep. Most of your sleep is non-REM and only a portion of your sleep is REM and that's when you do most of your dreaming. Night terrors are different from nightmares. Night terrors occur during non-REM sleep, usually in the deep sleep phase. When you’re in deep sleep, you have slower brain waves. We get the bulk of our slow wave sleep during the first ½ or 1/3 of the night. So most times night terrors occur in the first 2 -3 hours after going to sleep. Normally your body prepares you to wake up by having fewer and shorter phases of deep sleep until you finally wake up from the lighter stages of sleep. But with night terrors, you abruptly wake up from deep sleep. It’s like going from a near coma to being shaken awake. You wake up with a lot of confusion and disorientation. You can wake up screaming, sweating with your heart racing, almost like you’re having a panic attack. This is a central nervous system arousal that is involuntary. It’s not a reaction to a bad dream. Remember, before you woke up, you were in deep sleep which is a stage of sleep where not much dreamin

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