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Night Terrors and Nightmares

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Night terrors arise from deep non-REM sleep and are not recalled; nightmares arise from REM sleep and are recalled vividly.

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A child screams and thrashes for a minute at eleven at night and has no memory of it in the morning.

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Both are called bad dreams and only one is a dream. The stage of origin is what separates them.

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