In role-playing games, metagaming is a term often used to describe players' use of assumed characteristics of the game.
Various factors can contribute to sleep terrors, such as: 1  Sleep deprivation and extreme tiredness. 2  Stress. 3  Fever (in children). 4  Sleeping in unfamiliar surroundings. 5  Lights or noise. 6  An overfull bladder.
If your toddler's night terrors usually happen at a particular time, try gently waking him about 15 minutes beforehand. This will take him out of the deep sleep phase where night terrors happen. If you do this every night for a week, it may reset his sleeping pattern enough to prevent the night terrors (NHS 2013) .hen your toddler's having a night terror, you'll probably see one or more of the signs below. He may: Yes. Unlike night terrors, nightmares happen during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, otherwise known as dream sleep (Knott 2011) .