I am 40 and my night terrors are worse now than they were when I was younger. I know that I don't get out of bed; at first I can't scream because I'm so scared and then it becomes a "bloody murder" scream. When and if I wake up, I'm usually crying. Sometimes I remember them the next day; sometimes not. If I remember anything, its always the dark shadow. I have just been recently diagnosed with bipolar and my tdoc seems to think the dark shadow I see during the day is the same as the one I see at night.