night terrors are typically where people wake up and it's more common in children with just this terrible sense of dread and fear and your kid is almost inconsolable at that stage they're crying but what's interesting is that even when you know you have one of these night terror events as an adult if you were to ask people what was you think well they were having a horrific dream but if you ask someone you know what was going through your mind just before you woke up they typically say you know nothing much i don't remember anything and in part it's because many of these night terror events seem to happen from deep