[Monty_girl]

Well I did it again last night. I started acting out my dream while still asleep. I didn't get out of the house this time. D got me before then.

Whenever I get dreams about being trapped and trying to get out, is when I start sleep walking. Or like last night I started ripping the bed apart. I've had to buy new comforters and sheets because I just rip them to pieces.

I wish that these dreams would end.

[hillbunnyb]

Hey MonyGirl, I done been there. I call these night terrors. I started having them while still in a crib. I would be "climbing out" completely unconscious but physically active. As years went by, they'd pull me down off windowsills........ out of closets, etc. I would remember nothing.

When I got my first apartment in NYC, there were 3 of us on mattresses on the floor in a tiny bedroom. I made sure I was furthest from the window and just prayed they'd catch me before I got out....

I was in my early 20's when I first woke up during one. Prior to this particular night, I relyed on reports from others to even know this was happening. Well, there I was, standing on the window sill, trying to get out!!! Sweating a cold sweat, breathing like I had run the mile in 4, shaking like a leaf, and scared out of my mind. "Hmmmmmmmmm!", I said to myself, "This is what they were talking about!" Sheeesh.

Since that first awakening during, I awoke sooner and sooner and sooner, until now, I wake up just as I fall into the panic, so I don't get further than sitting up before I wake up.

I have no idea what triggers the shift toward waking up other than time away from "the trauma", and a good therapist. . .
I have only this year learned how to sleep refreshingly. . . I only get jolted as I'm falling alseep maybe 3 or 4 times a year.

I wish you well. I never knew how important sleep was til I started doing it.

[Monty_girl]

These night terrors are so horrible. I used to have them a lot more then I do now. There were many nights that I would wake ppl up in the house banging my arms on the windows to get out. I've been lucky that my arms never went through the windows. My last T had me put a bell on the bedroom door so that I would wake ppl up if I left the bedroom. I've been found walking down the street early in the cold morning with just a t-shirt and underwear on. Very scary. Sometimes I wake up just screaming to the point I've lost my voice for a few days. All I can remember is feeling just trapped and that I have to get out. So very scared when it happens. It's such a horrible feeling. Just like every emotion is coming up.

Monty