Screaming and shouting in my sleep

[ladylalatub]

Usually I live alone, but at the moment I am staying with family. They have told me that some nights I shout and scream out in my sleep, but I have no recollection of this in the morning. I am currently on Aripiprazole due to auditory hallucinations and before I was on Olanzapine. Sometimes at home, I wake up in the night randomly after hearing loud bangs on the wall that is shared with the neighbours: perhaps they can hear me shouting in my sleep and do this to wake me up? What is going on?

I am wondering if this is a bit like night terrors, which DS had when little.

Do they happen at the same time every night? DS's did, and I roused him at 10.30 each night, half an hour before they usually began, and let him drift back to sleep immediately. After 3 nights doing this, they were gone.

It sounds like you might be having a nightmare, which I presume DS was. I had recurring nightmares in my childhood as well. Do you remember if you were dreaming, and what about?

Sometimes I could tell what I was worrying about by the content of my bad dreams. Is there a big worry going on for you atm? If you can remember anything of what you've dreamt, it might help.