Thread: Is my night terror the norm? Long post.

Hi, my main reason for my post is to find out if it's normal to have the same night terror dream all the time ? I've had the same one in different capacities for over 6-7 years (started in my late 20's and have continued on I'm 33 now) where I have always been the target but it has just recently changed after giving birth to my son and is focused on him now. After googling it does seem to be a night terror rather than a nightmare, they are always without fail within an hour of me falling asleep.

So I have a recurring night terror... Maybe once a month or every few months always within an hour of falling asleep I have a recurring night terror/dream that I often become aware within that its about to happen...

Its always the same dark figure that I feel as a presence and as soon as I become lucid is when I know its coming for me. As I have become lucid in my dream that's how I know its about to happen and I try to make my escape... One example is I was dreaming I was in the kitchen of the current house we were living in, I was getting a drink and getting ready for bed and all of a sudden I realized I was dreaming, within a second of this I begin to run to the hallway but as I reach the kitchen door this dark figure pulls me back as I claw at the doorway, I scream and scream but nothing comes out or just a whisper. As I'm lucid at this time and I've learnt after having this dream numerous times I know I have to keep screaming till I wake up, I'm always screaming my partners name , screaming so he hears me and helps me, its generally on the third scream I scream loud enough and I transition from dream to being awake and aware that its over.

Twice I have confronted the figure instead of running when I've become lucid , once I remember doing it cause it was the third time in a week I had had the episode and I was angry! It did make me feel better and they stopped for a while after that.

Now though I have a 7month old son and they started coming back. Tonights though was particularly terrifying because I wasn't the target this time my son was.

It started as usual I was dreaming I was winding down for the night and headed to bed but I went and checked my son and all his furniture had been rearranged and his top had been taken off and there were scratch marks all over his torso. I grabbed him out of bed begged my partner to leave the house with me and went into the longer room holding my son , this is when I became truly lucid.. As I tried to get back into the bedroom to my partner the change table kept moving back and forth stopping me .. As usual I screamed once, twice and on the third scream actually managed to scream my partners name out loud and bolted up out of bed and ran in to check on my son.

When I wake up after the third scream during all terrors I am fully awake , realise I've woken from the terror and am able to have conversations to recount the dreaming and what happened and am in no way still in the night terror. I hear myself scream its always my partners name but once I did growl so aggressively it actually scared my partner!

So is this normal? I've always wondered if these are just physical /mental occurrences but after the focus of the terror dream changed from me to my son I'm now questioning if they are spiritual and sat in bed crying while my partner tried to console me.

Thoughts ?

Originally Posted by lollyloz

So I have a recurring night terror... Maybe once a month or every few months always within an hour of falling asleep I have a recurring night terror/dream that I often become aware within that its about to happen...

Its always the same dark figure that I feel as a presence and as soon as I become lucid is when I know its coming for me.

When you lucid dream expectations are incredibly powerful. If you expect to see this figure and for bad things to happen when ever you realise that you are dreaming, then they will. It really is that simple.

However it can be tricky to change expectations. Do you ever recall normal dreams? If you do I would suggest keeping a dream diary and recording both NDs and LDs, as many as you can recall from a night. Also meditation throughout the day might help you to relax more when you go to sleep at night.

Read through some of the DILD tutorials here on Dreamviews, they are back to basics and are thorough, they will help you to set your intentions as you go to sleep and eventually you will reclaim your dreams!