Psychology / Unit 3 Psych 0338 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Night Terrors and Nightmares
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The idea
Night terrors arise from deep non-REM sleep and are not recalled; nightmares arise from REM sleep and are recalled vividly.
In practice
A child screams and thrashes for a minute at eleven at night and has no memory of it in the morning.
Where people slip
Both are called bad dreams and only one is a dream. The stage of origin is what separates them.
Your place on the trail
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