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Are they night terrors?

Posted by tj on April 05, 1998 at 16:35:10:

They started about 4 years ago, back then at least once a week there would be an "earthquake" and I would sit upright terrified, believing that it had actually happened and that the picture over the bed or the ceiling tiles fall on me. It is very real as the room is as it should be and nothing is out of the ordinary except this terrifying event. I stopped dreaming about the earthquakes when I moved to a different house and started just seing spiders dropping from the ceiling (big ones). I would usually bolt upright and scream trying to get it or them off of me. One night I got very interactive with this hallucination and started belting my husband upside the head before I realized the spider was not there! When my son was born I would hallucinate that he was falling out of the cradle and I would dive out of bed onto the floor to catch him. Now it is a strange man standing with his face by mine, very scarey! I scream and scramble.
My husband has been very supportive, he holds me tight until I calm down, sometimes I clue in right away and feel stupid, other times I believe it has happened for a few minutes and am confused by the lack of evidence.
Maybe somebody can answer me this, They started around the same time that I started getting migraines, there seems to be no connection other than they started the same year. Any thoughts?
These episodes can be very disruptive to my household and I am scared that I will hurt myself or my husband one day.I am sure that whoever wrote "nighterrors???" feels the same.
One point of interest. When I go to sleep with a warmed up "magic bag" (a cloth bag filled with beans or rice) at my belly or across the middle of my back, I do NOT get these episodes! So far that is 100% of the time! Just a teddy bear security or is it really helping? Let me know!

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