Eyes wide shut: how to cope with night terrors

Nightmares are bad enough, but for some children – and even adults – there’s something far more terrible lurking in the dark
No one wants to hear about your dreams. Their eyes will glaze over when you tell them you only got three hours’ sleep because of that “weird” one about sharing a house with the actor Max von Sydow where you communicated through a gap in a bookcase. Their ears may prick up, however, if you have one of the more fascinating parasomnias. Bru