Today on the Grave Talks, Night Tears, the Dark Side of Dreams, a conversation with author Alice Vernon.

What happens when sleep? The place meant to restore us becomes the source of our deepest fear?

For much of her life, Alice Vernon has awakened with the unsettling sense that she wasn't alone.

Experiences shaped by vivid nightmares, hallucinations, sleepwalking,

and other parisomnias that blurred the boundary between dreaming and waking.

In her book, Night Terrors, Alice shares how these nighttime disturbances began in childhood and followed her into adulthood, influencing both her imagination and her work as a writer.

We discussed the science behind troubled sleep and why parisomnias are more common than many realize.

Night terrors isn't just about bad dreams, it's about the stories we tell ourselves to survive them.

And for anyone who's ever woken in the dark, heart racing, convinced something was watching them,

this conversation offers reassurance that you are not alone, and that maybe the night has

always held more power over us than we like to admit.

Today on the Grave Talks, Night Terrors, a conversation with author Alice Vernon.

So Alice, thank you for coming back on The Grave Talks.

You were on a while back, and we talked about your book Ghosted.

And it's kind of the history.

It goes back into, I would say, the 1800s in the Victorian Times. It was a great conversation. I would highly recommend people go back and listen to that episode. I found out when I was reading your book that you had written another book, night tears,

troubled sleep in the stories we tell about it. And I'm like, would you come back and talk

about that book? Here we are today. Thank you very much for returning. Oh, thank you so much

for asking me back, Carol. There's something about sleeping and paranormal that tend to kind

to go hand in hand. And so I like to talk about sleep paralysis and paranormal because sometimes

it feels like it is paranormal and what exactly is sleep paralysis. So with you, you have had

sleep issues pretty much your entire life, haven't you?

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