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What Causes Screaming In Sleep?

My husband screams during his sleep. All the family wakes up scared from his screams. Twice he tried to choke me during his sleep. He did that while screaming. When I woke up and asked why he was doing that, he said that he dreamt the someone was trying to kill him. Please help.
posted on Mon, 23 Jun 2014
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Screaming and jittering in sleep is vey common condition and this is mostly happens during the Rapid eye movement sleep, and this is the normal condition and nothing to worry about this, hope this helps.
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What Causes Screaming In Sleep?

HI Well come to HCM Screaming and jittering in sleep is vey common condition and this is mostly happens during the Rapid eye movement sleep, and this is the normal condition and nothing to worry about this, hope this helps.