Sentence examples for sleep terror from inspiring English sources

"Here's a sleep terror," he continued.

With a sleep terror you have no anticipatory increase in the heart rate".

"You can trigger a sleep terror de novo, from nothing -- just the sound of a doorbell or a buzzer from a six-volt battery -- which means it's not a climax of ongoing dreamlike mentation.

In particular, "you definitely want to warn other parents if your child may sleepwalk or have a sleep terror," said Dr. Jodi A. Mindell, a psychologist who is associate director of the Sleep Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and author with Dr. Owens of "Take Charge of Your Child's Sleep" (Marlowe, 2005).

Sleep terror symptoms may include arousal, agitation, large pupils, sweating and increased blood pressure.

A sleep terror episode usually lasts from seconds to a few minutes, but they can last up to an hour.

Sleep terrors, which are most common from 4 or 8, can persist until puberty.

Then we saw a lot of adults with sleepwalking and sleep terrors who were perfectly well wired neurologically and psychiatrically.

People just didn't want to believe that a perfectly normal adult could have sleep terrors and sleepwalking".

"There are over 70 different types of sleep disorders," Mr. Wyatt said, including problems with breathing, like sleep apnea, insomnia, sleep terrors and nightmares and sleepwalking.

The most common NREM parasomnias, sleepwalking and sleep terrors, are often triggered by so-called partial or confusional arousals from the deepest stages of sleep.