Night terror

Night terror, also known as sleep terror, is a sleep disorder, causing feelings of terror or dread, and typically occurs during the first hours of stage 3-4 non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. Night terrors tend to happen during periods of arousal from delta sleep, also known as slow-wave sleep. During the first half of a sleep cycle, delta sleep occurs most often, which indicates that people with more delta sleep activity are more prone to night terrors. However, they can also occur during daytime naps.

Night terrors have been known since ancient times, although it was impossible to differentiate them from nightmares until rapid eye movement was discovered. While nightmares (bad dreams that cause feelings of horror or fear) are relatively common during childhood, night terrors occur less frequently according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The prevalence of sleep terror episodes has been estimated at 1%–6% among children, and at less than 1% of adults. Night terrors can often be mistaken for confusional arousal. Sleep terrors begin between ages 3 and 12 years and then usually dissipate during adolescence. In adults, they most commonly occur between the ages of 20 to 30. Though the frequency and severity vary between individuals, the episodes can occur in intervals of days or weeks, but can also occur over consecutive nights or multiple times in one night.

Night Terror

Night Terror or Night Terrors may refer to:

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Night Terrors (film)

Night Terrors is a 1993 American-Canadian-Egyptian horror film, directed by Tobe Hooper. The plot involves a young girl travels to Cairo to visit her father, but becomes unwillingly involved with a bizarre sadomasochistic cult led by the charismatic Paul Chevalier, a descendant of Marquis de Sade. Horror star Robert Englund plays both Chevalier and de Sade.

Plot

A young girl travels to Cairo to visit her father, and becomes unwillingly involved with a bizarre sadomasochistic cult led by the charismatic Paul Chevalier, who is a descendant of the Marquis de Sade.

Critical reception

John Kenneth Muir wrote in Horror Films of the 1990s, "Many Tobe Hooper films admirably shatter taboos and film decorum, but there's little intellectual, stylish gamesmanship in this underwhelming film."Contemporary North American Film Directors noted that, along with 1989's Spontaneous Combustion, director Tobe Hooper "plumbed new depths".

The film currently holds a 3.1/10 rating on the Internet Movie Database based on over seven hundred user ratings.