Not quite.
lookaniche replied to your post: is your body in flight or fight mode during a nightmare? i mean whenever i wake up from a nightmare my heart is racing and my eyes are somewhat bigger like my whole body was concentrating to fight off the nightmares thats causing distress over my body atleast it feels like its distress…
Without the waking, isn’t it considered a night terror?
Most people say they have “nightmares” all the time, but those are usually just really bad dreams that don’t qualify as a nightmare because they are still sleeping. People can have really intense and scary bad dreams, but nightmares are less common.
Night terrors are also pretty intense and dramatic, but they usually occur during the transition from non-REM to REM sleep. Night terrors are more reoccurring than nightmares. Night terrors mainly affect children, although some adults report experiencing them. After a terror, the child usually wakes up without any memory of the terror, and won’t recall the episode until the next morning.
