Nightmares are bad enough, but for some children – and even adults – there’s something far more terrible lurking in the dark
No one wants to hear about your dreams. Their eyes will glaze over when you tell them you only got three hours’ sleep because of that “weird” one about sharing a house with the actor Max von Sydow where you communicated through a gap in a bookcase. Their ears may prick up, however, if you have one of the more fascinating parasomnias. Bruxism (tooth-grinding) may not make the cut, but sleep paralysis, sleep walking and night terrors are fascinating, largely because we really don’t know what causes them or what purpose they serve, not to mention the bafflement and horror they bring with them.
As a species, we have been attempting to unravel the tangled mysteries of our nocturnal habits since long before Freud turned his attention to the symbolism of our dreams. We have all woken from terrifying nightmares, but night terrors are a level beyond that and, uniquely, the sufferer often wakes with little or no recollection of what disturbed their rest.
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