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.
Night terrors have been shown to appear in stage 4 of sleep. This is just one thing that separates them from nightmares which can occur anytime in sleep. It is possible to make a night terror occur in some people, simply by touching or awakening them during stage 4 of sleep.lthough night terrors can occur anytime in a persons life span, the most common is reported in children between the ages of three and five.