Sleep Paralysis, or Night Terrors, are a weird but common nocturnal disturbance related to stress and difficult to treat. Characterized by a frightening figure that threatens the sleeper with its menacing presence, night terrors are a strange, uncomfortable and, oddly, hereditary category of dream. Most sufferers wait for them to go away. But what if the syndrome is chronic, and frightening figures chronically show up in your sleep space—persisting even after you awaken? Follow host Suzanne Clores into three night terror diaries, and take comfort in a truly extraordinary method of intervention.

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