<p>I have really terrrible night terrors where I wake up screaming, thrashing, and running around my house. I'm going to university next year and I'm scared I'll terrify my future roomates. I usually have them when I'm stressed and I'm sure i'll be stressed next year. How can I deal with this? Would I scare away my roommates</p>
<p>Yes, yes you will. But if your roommates are cool enough they’ll pull out a camera, record it, put it on Youtube and hope it ends on RayWilliamJohnson.</p>
<p>On a serious note, I suggest you warn them before the first night so things don’t get crazy when you start having your night terrors. And wouldn’t it be best if you get a single? I mean a lot of people won’t want to spend the night with you, mainly because they want full hours of silent sleep.</p>
<p>I would be more worried about your neighbours. As long as you tell your roommate, I’m sure he’ll be fine</p>
<p>Are you having night terrors from just thinking about how your night terrors will bother your future roommates?</p>
<p>If you were my roommate id try to switch rooms. Get a Quad and scare ur roommates away. Then you’ll have a big ass single.</p>
<p>Just tell them about it. It’s not like you can help it, so they can’t really get mad at you. They’ll get used to it, they can listen to music or something as they sleep so they don’t hear you. It sucks when things like that happen (I talk and yell in my sleep) and I feel bad about it, or like I’m being a bad roommate, but I can’t control it. Your roommates should get this and eventually adjust.</p>
<p>Make sure to let them know however the first one will scare them, there’s no way around that.</p>
<p>Tie yourself to your bed and put a gag in your mouth so you don’t bother them.</p>
<p>Oh and just do what I said from the beginning without any explanation that way they won’t know about the night terrors so they’ll be more comfortable around you.</p>
<p>Parent here. How frequently do you experience night terrors? Did you disclose this on the housing survey? If your night terrors are frequent, I strongly urge you to request a single. I know a young man who had night terrors and physically attacked his cousin who was visiting and was sleeping in his room with him. He had not had a bad episode in a long time, but was under a lot of stress when the incident occurred.</p>
<p>My friend gets night terrors frequently and qualified as “disabled” for housing purposes. They were going to give her a single, but she opted to room with her cousin so she wouldn’t be totally alone. I suggest either rooming with someone you know(who knows about these) or get a single.</p>
<p>I don’t attack people when i sleep, I just get up and start screaming when i’m stressed. Its a bit similar to the young man you mentioned, though. But I don’t want to live alone in a room because I’d be moving from California to Massachusetts by myself. I’ll have no family or friends. Plus i’m going to a private school and the private rooms are INSANELY expensive. But, I don’t want to disturb others when they sleep</p>
<p>VennFenrir, ask if the school would provide you a single room based on disability for a lower price. Im sure the school could make an exception for your case and let you pay the lower fee.</p>
<p>lol, no one should have to put up with you “thrashing” around the room in the middle of the night, screaming. No offence. And you shouldn’t have to worry about it. Def go for the single.</p>
<p>yeah noone is going to want to be in a room if that happens.
u have to get a single</p>
<p>thought night terrors only occured to young kids? only rare for an older person to get night terrors if i can remember gen psych…</p>
<p>definitely opt for the single. you don’t want things to get weird or to deprive roommates of sleep :/</p>
<p>orr get to a psychiatrist asap ;)</p>
<p>I’m honestly not too keen on a single dorm. I was looking forward to rooming with someone. Living in a single would be really lonely for me since I will know absolutely know no one and it would make making friends harder. But I guess its the only option… Thanks for the advice. Its definitely a bummer for me though…</p>