Night Terrors and Asperger syndrome

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I use to have severe night terrors as a kid and in my early 20s. I'm 36 now and they have seemed to subsided. Is night terrors a symptom of Asperger Syndrome and if so why? Mine were so bad sometimes that my parents would worry that I would severely hurt myself. I've damaged a thousand dollar piece of furniture one time.

Does anyone else have or had night terrors before.

Also if you have a loved one who has had them I can give you one piece of advice. If your loved one is having a night terror say, "you are dreaming". For me that was a switch that automatically woke me up.

I think it's complex issue with both psychological and emotional component (e.g. anxiety) as well as physiological one (e.g. hormonal or stomach issues). I do not think it's Autism-only, rather Autists are more sensitive.

I'm not sure if I have night terrors. I have hypnagogic hallucinations where I hear sounds and still feel events of my dreams are taking place (usually a nightmare scenario) and I sometimes wake up unable to walk properly which meant I had a seizure, because that happens during the day when I have them. But these dreams do increase the paranoia somewhat. I have to sleep with my lamp on and when I feel scared I just look around my room.
Actually, during the dream last night I told myself to wake up, though the dream felt real, and I did.

I had Night Terrors between the ages 16 and 27 and again between the ages 32 and 34.

I've read in forums night terror are pretty common in people with AS, and I do think stress is related. My daughter used to have nightmares almost every night and then was afraid of going to sleep until. It was a very hard time, until we took some meassures: she was not allowed to watch TV or Play videogames for at least one hour before going to sleep (those activities increased her stress levels), take a long warm shower every night, read a pleasent story before going to sleep (only pleasent stories, anything sad or violent was banned), drink linden tea before going to sleep (relaxes), going to sleep with soft music playing (meditation music is the best), leavin the corridor light on and her door open. That helped decrease her night terrors. Right now she will have nightmares maybe one every couple of months, and she is able to going back to sleep afterwards.

Night terrors are demon attacks,yeah these horrible creatures that may be our company, if we don't repent and live and die with sinful lives,in hell.Trust me demons are worse than bullies,especially satan.

I started having night terrors when I was 20 because of psychological issues going on. I was in a very serious & heavy long-distance relationship & I started having major problems sleeping because I wanted to have my arm around her instead of being by myself & I was really worrying about her some to. I think that manifested into occasional night terrors. I had a mental breakdown after things fell apart between us & I spent the next 5years seeing psychs & taking meds. I had some night terrors & occasional Sleep Paralysis when my meds were adjusted & sometimes when nothing was changed for a while. Things got a lot better after I quit taking meds but I go trough phases where I have problems sleeping & I occasionally still have night terrors & sleep paralysis. Usually when I go through a phase like that' I'm feeling lonely & I hate sleeping by myself partly because of those issues. I think my anxiety/fear/worry I will have them causes me to have em. I have not had those in quite a while now. I think what would help them the most would be sleeping with my arm around someone

I had night terrors as a kid, maybe 8-10. I would have nightmares about something bad coming, sometimes a giant dog, sometimes a loud noise like a foghorn. Then I'd wake up and lie in bed afraid to move. Now, if I wake up in the night and can't go back to sleep, it's like a mild panic attack. I think it's because my reality is not meeting my expectations.

Night terrors are completely different from nightmares. A nightmare is a really bad dream, you usually awaken pretty quickly and remember what it was about. A child will usually need some comforting to get back to sleep.

A night terror is really frightening for a parent to witness. The first time my daughter had one, she shouted and we went through to her room. She was sitting up, with her eyes open and she appeared awake. Then she starting screaming and pointing at something that wasn't there. After a few minutes it became clear that she wasn't awake. She was inconsolable and could not be wakened and this went on for about 15 minutes. Then she suddenly came round, said 'I'm OK now', and instantly fell asleep. She's no recollection of the night terror and hasn't remembered any of them. She tends to get them when she has a slightly raised temperature, due to a cold for example.

I was about 4/5 years old.
Br very well those things
But this happened only during night. During day i had no problem with noises from bathroom. And my allucination was related to the fact that i hate touch.

I remember everything about this, I also found a way to stop that and it worked (self medication at the age of 5)

My NT brother had night terror that were far worse than mine, and he wasn't awake when he was seeing monster.

I used to have night terrors or they could have been nightmares when I was about 10 up till I was 12 I think it was because I was bullied at school so that could have brought them on I remember waking up screaming.
They seemed to stop once I left that school and went to a Special school instead as I was a lot happier there.

I had vivid nightmares as a kid but I can't remember if I ever had night terrors as a kid. My mum says I did.