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Wakes Up The Whole House

My uncle's girlfriend always spends the night at my house with him. I'm a teenager, so I'm up really late at night. It'll be extreme silence, then I'll hear this VERY LOUD scream, like the scream you would hear if someone was getting murdered. And she'd run out of the room still screaming. Then she'd casually walk back to the room and go back to sleep. At first, it wakes up the whole house. But it always makes my mom and I laugh hysterically!

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Wakes Up The Whole House

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Nov 23, 2011
 Laughing hysterically at your house guest's terrors NEW
by: Sighbermom

Laughing hysterically after observing someone enduring a night terror is so heartless! You need to do some research about the subject and be compassionate to the sufferer. It seems that she has been going through the night terrors for quite a while because she can go back to bed and fall asleep. Maybe she has realized that she is not harmed and has taught herself to relax because she is physically OK. Then she can go back to bed. A person might not remember events during their night terror, but they cannot forget the tortuous anxiety of what she just went through in her time of experiencing her brain's interpretation of something horrible happening to her. Terrors happen to me, I can only recall snapshots of where I was existing, but I cannot let go of the anxiety and disturbed thoughts that are the 'leftovers' of night terrors. Please, have a heart. You could be next. Terrors are not predictable and are gender neutral. Sincerely.

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