KainAsylum ([info]kainasylum) wrote,
@ 2009-06-18 01:13:00
Previous Entry  Add to memories!  Tell a Friend  Next Entry
Pattern Bending
Apparently, the nightly incidents I have been going through is commonly known as "Night Terrors"... entering a form of sleep coupled with a feeling of intensely violent vibration, paralysis, and horrifying audio and visual hallucinations.

Just as it was when I was 8 years old... for a year.  Continuous night terrors.  Unending.  Predictably consistent.

I can fight these night terrors if I can understand the pattern.

If somebody were to ask me what my realistic superpower might be, I might answer sociological pattern matching.  I naturally seek to break established patterns... I suppose we all do in one form or another.  As much as I can be a catalyst for change in other people's patterns, I can't seem to break my own pattern.

Have I been here, before?  Why am I here, again?




(5 comments) - (Post a new comment)


[info]clown_spawn
2009-06-18 01:15 pm UTC (link)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terror

Physically: are you getting enough sleep?

Mental: there are some major stressors in your life right now, and it sounds like it's gotten worse lately. Can you do anything to resolve them, or find a way to let them go?

(Reply to this) (Thread)


[info]kainasylum
2009-06-18 08:46 pm UTC (link)
Insomnia... not by choice. Stressors... none that I know of.. maybe work. maybe house. maybe money, love, health, etc.... I dunno. It all seems okay.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)


[info]clown_spawn
2009-06-18 11:15 pm UTC (link)
Have you tried using melatonin? You might also try using a white noise machine. My sister used it to help her get to sleep when she first moved to New Jersey.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

Night Terrors
[info]iniquity_virtue
2009-06-18 08:38 pm UTC (link)
I'm rather familiar with night terrors as I've been having them for 6 years now. Adults who have experienced abuse as kids or have seen abuse done to others as kids tend to have them. The emotional part of your brain wasn't able to develop as you've experienced childhood trauma. Basically, you probably have an underdeveloped hippocampus. That can also lead to memory problems.

(Reply to this) (Thread)

Re: Night Terrors
[info]kainasylum
2009-06-18 08:45 pm UTC (link)
This is very informative... it all things considered, it makes sense.

(Reply to this) (Parent)


(5 comments) - (Post a new comment)

Create an Account
Forgot your login or password?
Login w/ OpenID
English • Español • Deutsch • Русский…