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The worst kind of dream (state) - (I think they're called "night terrors" or something like that) - are those of children, late at night. Though most psychologists say that the child cannot predict when these "terrors" will come, when I was a child, I could sometimes predict. The process, such as it is, is generally a very sleepy or tired feeling, combined with a strong desire not to fall asleep or close your eyes, because the dreams will come. When the child does fall asleep, the dream seems to envelop his (or her) entire field of vision, and the combined feelings of being trapped in the dream, and the dream images being reality, come. When the child wakes, it is usually screaming with fear, only to have the parent come in, reassure the child, leave, the child goes back to sleep, and the process repeats, sometimes up to 3 or 4 times a night, depending on sleep schedule. It is a truly terrifying process, and one that is hard to forget.
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