Klexos: The Different Aspects Of Life

The above quote represents a classic episode of night terrors, or sleep terrors (the terms are interchangeable). Night terrors – called incubus in adults and pavor nocturnus in children (Durand 31) – fall into a larger category of sleep disorders called parasomnias, which are sleep disorders that are classified by abnormal or paranormal brain activity (psychnet). It's also considered a disorder of "partial arousal", where the child is

Suddenly you wake up in the middle of the night. Something is keeping your brain working as if it was in the middle of the day, awake and full of energy (but is not like that happens, anyways). You really don’t know really how it feels until it’s happening to you and now I know how it feels. There is difficulty in falling or staying asleep. Then, the waking up in the morning early and being extremely tired. This is a sleep disorder when you cannot sleep and you are awake; it's like the awake cycle is turned on and so the sleep cycle is turned off. The strength of something being so powerful keeps you awake without the ability to have a peaceful sleep; it is exhausting.

PTSD. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Sleeping has become laborious. It’s a mission to fall asleep and to remain asleep. My nerves have been forced fragile by the agonizing nightmares, nobody should ever have these thoughts lingering their mind.

Review of The Twenty-four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives by Rosalind Cartwright 224 pages Oxford University Press, USA; * edition (June 24, 2010)

Night terrors are a type of parasomnia, that cause screaming, intense fear, and flailing, while still asleep. These episodes are most common but not limited to children between ages of four to twelve, for they can also still occur in adults. Mostly children are affected by this parasomnia, but only three to six percent of them have these night terrors, and the percentage of occurrences in adults are lower. Some studies show that there are some variables, such as tiredness, or drugs, may cause a development of these disturbances during sleep. While most will grow out of their sleep terrors, some may not, and must find different ways to control or reduce their chances of having night terrors. Usually, night terrors are not normally due to psychiatric disorders, so with that in mind, it is logical to assume that they are often triggered by certain environmental factors.

Thesis: Night terrors are happening all around us and as students with roommates we need to be prepared and aware. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: All I can see is a white glare, I can hear my mother screaming at me “Christina no, wake up!” I can feel a wave of grogginess come upon me, I watch my mom cry as she pins me to the kitchen floor. I look down at all the scratches on my legs and stomach, wondering what happened and how I got here. All I knew was that it hurt, and I never want to go to sleep again.

confusion, and anxiety increase in the later part of the day. This is a particularly

They used twenty-eight female and male participants, some with frequent others with less frequent nightmares. All participants were screened for any mental or psychological disorders. In the study, participants would have a nap, complete a task, and fill out questions on the state of their dreams and experiences. The participants would also nap for longer and then be awakened right before they entered into REM sleep. Then the participant would once again answer questions and write about their dream experiences. The questionnaire contained questioned related to the state of their dream, stress levels, nightmare frequency, etc. The participants also slept in rooms with continuous surveillance and with a polysomnography. The participants were tested on their dream and daydreaming conditions with similar procedures that were previously

in the morning and goes all the into your dreams. It takes a huge toll on your everyday life. Even

I did not sleep well as a child. When I closed my eyes, I was not inundated with calming thoughts, nor fantastical images, but rather assaulted by existential anxieties which coaxed me into undesired ruminations about my being. I believed falling asleep was tantamount to relinquishing control over my ephemeral existence, as there was no guarantee of awakening. I found myself clinging to the present to the detriment of the future, desperately eschewing its hastened arrival for fear that it would not include me in its progression. And yet, every night, hour by hour, I would find myself succumbing to the physical and mental manifestations of sleep deprivation. I would come to plead for the very loss of control that I so viscerally feared, as

Tragedy has a negative meaning. When we hear “tragedy,” we always link it to car accidents, people dying from crashes, or unfortunate aspect of disasters. A tragedy maybe reflects on both a person’s weakness and greatness, but it tends to emphasize on their problems within one’s self and with other people. It can also review the character’s personal qualities and moral standards through different circumstances. According to the Greek Tragedy, a tragedy never creates only downfall but brought by one’s own hand. In a tragedy, there is always a lesson to be learned despite the disastrous event has an unpleasant but meaningful ending.

It's hard to sleep at night when there's so many thoughts going through your head although sleep dread is not a thought but a disorder in a terrified state. Have you ever struggled on falling asleep because of the nightmares that you might experience? Or because you might feel like you're going to die while you are sleeping ? Let me tell you that you're not the only one. You are not alone. Sleep dread is a sleep disorder that affects 40% of the population one time or another. People do not seek treatment for this disorder. They believe this is normal until it takes over your life. Another word for sleep dread is Insomnia. Insomnia is " A habitual sleeplessness; inability to sleep." Sleep dread is becoming

Dreams are generally linked with rapid eye movement sleep, or REM sleep, which is a phase that happens near the end of a sleep cycle. REM sleep is characterized by the random movement of the eyes and heightened body and brain activity. One study proposed that there is a definitive link between dreams and emotions, where the reduction of REM sleep causes a reduction in the ability to comprehend the multifaceted emotions in everyday life (Gujar, 2011, p.117). This phase of the sleep cycle has the highest inclination of vivid dreams and studies of MRIs of the brain during REM sleep show that the amygdala and hippocampus play a key role (Gennaro, 2011, p.1458). The amygdale processes the memory of emotional reactions and the hippocampus stores information from short-term to long-term memory. These findings reveal the core mechanism and perhaps the reason that humans dream. Dreams seem to aid in processing emotions by linking them to a variety of memories. The experiences within dreams may not be real, but the emotions that accompany the images and events during REM sleep are unquestionably genuine. Without processing these emotions, the emotions build up and personal anxiety increases. With less REM sleep, people tend to be more agitated and mental disorders are more easily developed

Aside from noticing night and day and clocks our body has its own system to tell us when to sleep and when to wake, our circadian rhythm. The human body naturally runs on a twenty five hour clock, so living on a twenty four hour schedule is often hard on the body because it loses an hour each day. On top of this natural loss most people do not get the right amount of sleep each night which can cause a whole host of problems. This is part of

Night terrors, nightmares, and sleepwalking are all cases that fall into sleep disorders called parasomnias. Parasomnias are disruptive sleep disorders that can occur during arousal from either rapid eye movement or even non-rapid eye movement. Children from the age’s four to twelve of ages experience night terrors.