Night Terrors/Sleep Paralysis

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Does anyone ever experience this?

I just had what I think was an episode this morning. Freaked the hell out of me. I'm still freaked out. Most of the studies I read said that people stop feeling the fear after they wake up fully, but I was wondering if it might be different for aspies or something, since we're usually more sensitive.

Anyway, just interested in anyone else's experiences with this.

I have. For me it didn't go away right after I woke up, but lingered (I don't think I went back to sleep). It faded throughout the day, but I recall feeling it more again (in a much milder form) as it was time for bed.

More than I like to think about.

I don't experience these personally but I've heard ppl talk about how terrifying they can be. They say it's also a contributor to those who claim they were abducted by UFOs. This is not a joke BTW.

We studied this in Psychology the other week. Night terrors are usually just seen in children but in some cases can extend into adulthood. Like lastcrazyhorn, I now wonder if AS may have different effects on this.

Interesting.

I used to regularly experience sleep paralysis, which I think is like the opposite of night terrors. Sleep paralysis involves lucid dreaming where your eyes open and part of your brain is awake. It's a horrible feeling. I would get this dreams where people were trying to smother me or restrain me and I would scream and nothing came out. They happen when your deep sleep is interupted. The worst period was when my husband would go to work early in the morning and it would wake me up out of my deep sleep. I'd fall back to sleep when he left and get the bad dreams/paralysis.
For those of us who believe in spirits and bad energy, we also see this as a sort of twilight time when your spirit came come out of your body and be harassed by other spirits.

My husband gets the night terrors and my son did briefly as a toddler. They are some sort of nightmare that you don't remember but it wakes you up terrified. My husband thought it was due to PTSD but my son experienced them without having the same issues. I've since heard (anecdotally) that night terrors is common in very young autistic children.

i don't think it's an aspie thing for it to linger.

i taught myself to wake up from nightmares as a kid. i had them almost every night. the side effect was, though, that i'd wake up and see bugs all over the room. this turned into seeing spiders. and now i have arachnophobia. :-p

I used to have night terrors as a kid, but I don't anymore. I still have sleep paralysis though.

For me it lingered because it takes a while for the adrenaline to wear out. I would read a book to take my mind off the symptoms until my body calmed down and I could go back to sleep.
Haven't had a single episode since menopause.

I frequently have sleep paralysis. Occasionally, I have night terrors as well.

Rarely. Basically my body is just in stupor, I feel weight on my that prevents me from moving, but I have no hallucinations whatsoever. I wait it out, trying to relax my muscles to get them working. It was only scaring the first time it happened when I didn't know that there was an explanation to it.
I never had night terrors, I have next to no nightmares though/I don't perceive horrifying dreams as fear evoking.

I had a couple episodes of sleep paralysis a few years ago when I was experimenting with out-of-body-experiences. It was scary, but also kind of cool. Haven't had any since.

I get SP a lot but I don't always get the fear associated. Odd. I actually had a sort of pleasent episode recently.