I’ve brought my mom with moderate Alzheimer’s to live with me. About every two or three nights she has bouts of screaming and talking in her sleep. Do I wake her?

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Thank you everyone. To Caring2Lov, I thought about the calling out to her own deceased mother as a sign as well, The scary other part is she also called out to her deceased nephew and she called out my name too. I’m a little freaked out that if it was a sign, as I was mentioned right along there with the folks who have passed on.

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Her physician and geriatric psychiatrist should be made aware of this. That poor lady-calling out to someone who has been gone for 44 years.

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I am a 70 year old woman who has night terrors. I do not have dementia or altzheimers. I scream out loud & wake my husband. He will gently wake me. I go right back to sleep once I settle down. I would suggest you gently wake her. It's helpful, if you can, to hold her to assure her she's okay. I have had a re-occurring nightmare that I have had for many years. She may have had them for years too but you weren't aware of them until she came to live with you. I wish you luck.

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My mm too has hd this for the last two and a half years. it was frequent when i first brought her here, then it quieted down, maybe from meds, maybe from more familiarity. but now she is winding down, on hospice, and it is happening again, talking in italian, talking too low to be understood in any language, moaning and fussing with the blankets and clothing. i wake her, or try, she almost never opens her eyes unless i scream at her to reach her, and in the old days her eyes used to fly open with fear in her face, i am sure she was having bad dreams and i just thought it better, like you, to wake her from that and hope it didn't return but it sometimes did. but now but i never find out why she is behaving that way, too deep in her dementia to tell me. i am up till 3 or so most nights with this. she sleeps all day fairly solidly, really hard to wake her more than a couple of minutes at a time, and then after sundown, she starts up again and it's really hard to tell if she's awake or just acting out in her sleep. good luck.

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I am 85 and have been told that I've always talked in my sleep.As far as I know I don't have dementia. But my mother did have dementia when she died at 85. I sometimes have vivid memories of my dreams as far back as a 7 years dreams old. I can't recall ever been awakened by someone else and although I have researched for understanding, there are so many theories, I don't think anyone really understands what dreams mean. If I were you and her dreams indicated she was afraid, I'd lay down beside her, speak gently and hug her softly until she calms down. Warm milk and/or soft music may be helpful. I went on a trip for 2 weeks with a dear friend with whom I had never traveled. I told her that people tell me I talk in my sleep. She laughed and said, "they tell me I sing". She did and I did and we're still friends. I don't think it's a big deal unless it keeps you awake and ear plugs may help.

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Thanks Anne. I actually don’t wake her unless she starts screaming for help at the top of her lungs. When she is terrified, I’m afraid to touch her because previously she thought I was the person in her dream and struck out at me.

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