Night Terrors

Jones Jones 1
Article Summary
8/1/2013
Things That Go Bump In The Night Is sleep truly the source of human peace? An article by Ph. D John Cline has help me to come to believe otherwise. There was a situation in which a woman woke up to her sleeping husband’s fists. Indeed the husband was sleep but far away from peace. The husband was experiencing a night terror. A night terror is far worse than a bad dream, a night terror is when someone wakes up screaming and in some cases they act out their dream. In this case the husband acted out his dream; however, his actions occurred unknowingly. His wife screamed his name for him to stop, this of which woke him up. These events didn’t stop there so the husband decided to seek professional help. Upon being appointed to a sleep specialist he learned about Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder. He quickly learned that he was suffering from a very rare disorder. About 0.38 percent of the general population and about .50 percent face this disorder. This disorder is also known as RBD his class of which is known as parasomnias. Parasomnias are unwanted physical events dealing with sleep. RBD happens to blend with Rapid eye movement. In the sense of this disorder the person’s body is paralyzed and intense and colorful dreams occur. This sleep disorder is most common to men over the age of fifty years of age; however, its possible for anyone to have this disorder but they’re not as likely. Many sleep different disorders associate with each other such as this one and sleep apnea in relation to rapid eye movement. RBN happens to also be associate to Parkinson’s disease. There are
Whitehead 2 many sleep disorders that can effect our sleep. This of which happens to be important because sleep is important to use as humans. Sleep can determine how health one can be mentally and physically. The importance of sleep speaks for itself in fact, we do spend one-third of our life sleeping. I chose this article because everyone sleeps but, who says that we have to be at peace while doing it? I couldn’t possible picture life without sleep. Honestly, I think life would be entirely too long and tiring without it. I also wanted to know more about this disorder for future references. Psychologically this article covers REM which happens to be the movement of the eye as someone dreams. In addition, I believe that our society would be pleased to know this disorder is not a common one. This article was great in terms of knowledge of the disorder. I would have maybe even enjoyed reading this article on my free and not just for class purposes. In reading this article I’ve learned that I am at a greater risk in having this disorder than the general population. To sum things up, never take your recommended six-eight hours for granted, because you never know when things could start to go bump in the night for you.