In contrast,
sleep terrors usually occur in the first one - third of the night and arise out of slow - wave sleep.
Not exact matches
Night
terrors aren't associated with fear or emotional problems, and
usually happen when a child has a fever or her
sleep schedule has been disrupted.
Children
usually don't remember anything about their
sleep terrors in the morning.
However frightening,
sleep terrors aren't
usually a cause for concern.
Night
terrors occur during NON-REM
sleep (the period of coming out of deep
sleep), and
usually within two hours of going to
sleep.
Usually, a night
terror occurs within the first two hours of going to
sleep.
What you're describing certainly sounds like it could be a night
terror, which occur in non-REM
sleep -
usually about 2 hours after falling asleep.
These night
terror episodes can last up to 40 minutes (but
usually less) before the child returns to a restful
sleep with no memory of the event the next day.
Night
terrors usually happen about 2 or 3 hours after a child falls asleep, when
sleep moves from the deepest stage of non-REM
sleep to lighter REM
sleep.
Researchers think of night
terrors as mysterious glitches in the
usually smooth transitions we make between
sleep stages each night.
Night
terrors usually happen 90 minutes to three hours after a child falls asleep, during non-REM
sleep.