Anyone suffer screaming in the night?

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I've had this problem my whole life.
I will scream in my sleep and yell things like "help me" and "get off me "

I will sometimes wake myself up with it or be woken up by someone coming in to see if I'm ok.

Sometimes the scream comes with dreaming someone is standing next to my bed and as I wake up while screaming that image fades but mostly i don't even wake up.

I don't share a room with my husband (luckily for him eh?) But my son has told me that it's getting worse and I've woken him up most nights at the moment. He's absolutely knackered and obviously worried about me.

Does anyone else suffer from this and if so have you ever found anything that stops it?

I'm particularly worried because we're getting new neighbours and I'm worried they are going to think I'm being abused!

Our old neighbours were deaf and never heard a thing. I don't want to end up with the police at the door

I have the same thing, often think there is something/someone at the side of the bed/in the room and wake up screaming “what the fuck” is that. I’ll go though stages of not doing it for a few weeks to doing it every night.

I also often wake and don’t know where I am, takes me a minute or two to work it out.

I have noticed that it often not long after going to bed that this happens so assume that’s part of it.

On Halloween it was so bad my husband turned the light on and checked our room/house.

@Chattycathydoll oh bless her! Actually I still use audio books if DH is away and I’m alone. And bless you for actually checking on her! I got short shrift as a child and I think it just made me more insecure and scared, even if I cried, no one was coming. One of my DCs has nightmares, although not on that level, and I always go, and they can always come for help, even aged 12 now. I have a theory that I got myself into a terrible cycle because I was scared of even falling asleep, and that made me more like to have problems each night, so I think helping your DD fall asleep calm and secure is the best thing you can do for her.

Yes I have experienced this but fortunately not too often . It’s always during a nightmare when I’m trying to speak but can’t get the words out and it comes out as screaming. It always wakes DH and also DS (in another room) a couple of times.

Doesn’t happen often enough that I can identify any particular triggers but I’ve noticed I more commonly have nightmares when I’ve overheated in bed. So if I have socks on or have wrapped myself up in a fleecy blanket. I try to sleep ‘cool’ if I can (but not freezing!). Seems like it is a fairly common thing though.

@ImNotOnTwitterButMySupportGoldfinchTweets It actually means a lot to hear that response. I’m a single mum so it is always me traipsing in and out of her room, it’s tiring so just having a bit of external validation is really nice! Her dad did not help- he showed her horror video games around age 4 which made her fears escalate, it was cruel of him to do that in the first place but would be just as cruel to leave her in the dark alone to deal with it. No matter how much work it is for me it’s just as much work for her having to learn to sleep despite it!

She’s much better now about falling asleep, though the 10 minute check does give me an early warning sign. She sometimes sleeps with her eyes open and when she’s fallen asleep like that it often corresponds with a rough night later on, though she doesn’t always wake up, she might just be giggling and chatting away in her sleep. It also seems that although her sleep is frequently disrupted with this behaviour if she falls asleep calm and happy, it’s more likely to be laughing and talking than screaming or wailing. Which makes sense! And is even more motivation to keep her feeling safe and cosy pre-sleep.

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He is 34. We go through patches where nothing for weeks/montjs and then they can be regular sometimes multiple a night. It was awful when we had our newborn in our room with us as the lack of sleep was awful and the paralysis was terrible. My DH feels so guilty. Gosh, I feel you running away from a dinosaur. It sounds funny but know it is traumatic at the time! My DH has pinned me down in the bed thinking we were being robbed. We both woke up screaming! Spiders is another one and he pulls me out of bed as he thinks there are spiders everywhere. The ones where he is trapped and screaming are the worst. He says he feels like he is being sucked into a big black hole. We have been together since we were 18 and he has always had them. I am scared my DS will have inherited it too (he's 2 now!)

I have this- I was diagnosed with parasomnia, basically night terrors. I've had them all my life and they vary in how bad they get. I have been prescribed medicine in the past but it never really worked so unfortunately it seems like I just have to live with them.

That's interesting, I have adhd so maybe that explains the life long night terrors. I had one in hospital once and scared the other patients and nurses stupid as I was shouting about being murdered and trying to run with a drip attached. Consequently I never willingly share a room unless it's with my mum or child.

Spiders <shudder>. Probably the one I wake DH up the most for is when spiders have spun a web above my face in bed. That’s a screaming, flailing and running halfway across the room number.

I’ve actually fixed the dinosaur one now, I’d had it fairly regularly since seeing Jurassic Park as a child. One night I had a lucid nightmare and realised if I swapped all the door handles to door knobs the velociraptors wouldn’t be able to follow me through closed doors. It sounds utterly absurd, especially as I was probably 29 or 30 at the time, but it worked and that was one less nightmare to tackle.

I wish you as many peaceful nights as possible!

That is the most… logical nightmare-beating tactic I've ever heard. It's both bizarre and some kind of genius.

I’ve suffered with night terrors for years. I see things or people by the bed and scream bloody murder, often jumping out of bed to ‘get away’. It terrifies poor DH. My dad died a couple of months ago and I then went through a spell of shouting for my mum during the night.
It has improved recently, after I decided to have herbal tea before bed (mint). I find it relaxes and calms me down. Stress seems to be my trigger.
Really interesting about the aspartame though. I will definitely be looking into that.

Menopause has made my dreams SO much more vivid.

I go through phases of waking up screaming. It sometimes happens if DP comes to bed after me and I get a fright as he gets in, but it generally is when I am stressed. I can go back to sleep straight away and usually don’t even remember, but DP finds it really distressing.

This isn’t really funny, but when we adopted our cat five years ago she used to creep into our bed on cold nights. Apparently one night DP came through, I had a screaming fit, and the cat who was on my feet literally leapt into the air like in a cartoon. She is now shut in the kitchen overnight (with comfy bed, litter tray, water etc in case anyone thinks that is cruel) for her own good!

I scream out crying shouting help me ,I moan out as if am a baby,,crying and screaming it's becoming worse,,I do drink coffee, I don't drink,I don't like meds,or herbal remedies,,I do suffer with stress,,I don't remember nothing of this screaming crying out or even shouting help me anyone else having this problem?it's now becoming scary for me to sleep

My chemist is closed down and am unable to find a chemist who will take me on there books permanently,The chemist i use at the moment ,my meds are either not there or am waiting in queue for over 1 hour anyone else lse having a problem with there chemist either closing down or waiting in line for over a hour or there meds are not all there or not there at all

@Jw1 you'll do better to start a new thread about your problem. Otherwise people will just be responding to the OP and may not even see your post.

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I used to regularly scream in my sleep. It started in my mid teens and stopped shortly after DC 1 was born. Maybe the disrupted sleep pattern interfered with the scream mechanism.

I would dream the walls were falling in on me or find myself out of bed scrabbling about at the wall completely disorientated. Sometime I would be lying across the bed with my head hanging out over the edge of the mattress.

Sometimes in the morning I didn't remember screaming but thought I probably had been as I had a sore throat.

I do this all the time. I nearly always wake up on the landing and I’ve always got my duvet with me. When I wake up I’m always in a massive panic and my heart is racing and it usually takes a few minutes to calm back down. For me it is definitely linked to over tiredness and possibly screen time before bed.

I've never sought any treatment for it, just one of those things.

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My husband shouts out and jumps up in his sleep and has several time 'saved me' by grabbing me in his sleep, he's caused himself many injuries and even broken furniture. He's even argued with me in his sleep.
We've been together 24 years so I'm kinda used to it also we now have another room I can retreat to but at the beginning I found it quite scary.
His isn't constant but comes in bouts usually when he's very tired or stressed which due to his job is more often than I would like.
Unfortunately I'm a light sleeper and struggle to get back to sleep when he's shouted or jumped up however he often doesn't even really wake up and rarely has a memory of it in the morning.
Reducing stress levels helped quite a bit and when he's well rested he definitely doesn't do it as much but after a weekend or night on call he's so bad I usually don't even bother trying to sleep in our room.

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My DH regularly screams or shouts in his sleep, usually "get the fuck away from me", "I'll kill you" or varieties of that. He rarely remembers the details, now and again he'll say he dreamt he was being chased or attacked.

I'm used to it - tbh he snores more loudly than he screams and I can sleep through that - but he does scare the shit out of the dogs. The little one burrows under the covers glued to me, the other one barks at the "intruder". 🙄

We've been together 26 years and he's done it for as long as I can remember - he does drink alcohol regularly, but he only started blood pressure meds and SSRIs a couple of years ago. He is a very tense person.

I do this too. It can be a few times a month to nightly. Seeing a man at the side of me.
I've been told it's PTS from childhood.