What is "night terror"

n. (context pathology English) A sleeping disorder, where sleep is interrupted by anxiety, panic or screaming.

n. an emotional episode (usually in young children) in which the person awakens in terror with feelings of anxiety and fear but is unable to remember any incident that might have provoked those feelings

Night Terror or Night Terrors may refer to:

• Night terror, a medical condition
• Night Terrors (film), a 1993 horror film directed by Tobe Hooper
• Night Terror (Soulcalibur), a fictional character in the fighting game Soulcalibur III
• "Night Terrors" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a fourth season episode from Star Trek: The Next Generation
• "Night Terrors" (Doctor Who), an episode from the sixth series of Doctor Who
• Night Terrors (novel), a Buffy novel by Alice Henderson
• "Night Terror", a song by English singer Laura Marling
• "Night Terrors", a song by Static-X on Start a War