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An hour or two after my school-age son has gone to bed, he sometimes wakes up from a nightmare, walks to my room and mumbles incoherently about what’s scaring him. But he seems off, and I can't get ...

Violence during sleep isn’t common, but it’s also not extremely rare. Estimates indicate that approximately 1.7 to 2 percent of the population experience some form of sleep-related violent behavior.