Children sometimes experience intense episodes of sitting up during deep sleep, appearing frightened, showing signs of extreme arousal, talking, thrashing wildly, and then remembering nothing of the episode the next morning.What do such episodes indicate?

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The symptoms described indicate sleep terrors, also known as night terrors. Sleepwalking may also involve sleep-related motor activity, but typically without the extreme arousal and fearfulness. REM disorders, which involve abnormal behavior during the rapid eye movement stage of sleep, do not typically involve the intense arousal and fear seen in sleep terrors. Nightmare disorder involves frightening dreams that may cause arousal and difficulty returning to sleep, but typically without the physical agitation seen in sleep terrors.

Children Sometimes Experience Intense Episodes of Sitting Up During Deep