Personally, I'm not a fan of dream psychology. It strikes me that dreams are so difficult to categorise and subjective, even to the analyser, that analysis is unreliable.

However, have you ever heard of lucid dreaming? It essentially involves training yourself to realise that you're dreaming. Once you realise you're dreaming, your conscious mind will overcome your subconscious and you can assume control of your own dreams. One use of this is to confront your fears.

Some people will obviously make a spiritual thing of it. If it makes them happy, fair enough. I see it as an exercise in mental discipline and having had 3 lucid dreams now (and they're truly amazing) it's something that I intend to explore further when I leave Korea and eventually get my sleeping patterns in order.

Here's a (popular) book that I read on the subject. http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-World-Dreaming-Stephen-LaBerge/dp/034537410X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342021646&sr=8-1&keywords=lucid+dreaming



PS lol @ Apple!

Cereal has posted quite a few things about his life so some of us can relate his posts back to that. Don't be so hasty to jump to conclusions.

Hey there, psych degree here.
The general consensus is that the dreams themselves don't mean anything. Your brain fires randomly during certain stages of sleep as a way to consolidate your waking experience (which is why you might recognize some of the characters and events in your dreams as things you have encountered recently). But the dreams themselves are meaningless in regards to any truths about yourself (Except in the case of PTSD, which is often associated with flashback dreams).

Anyway that's a long preamble to my main point which is that night terrors are actually a medical sleep condition like sleep apnea or sleep walking. It's considered a meaningless dysfunction of sleep that can be treated. The first line of defense is to identify if anything in your sleeping conditions is associated with greater incidence of night terrors. I myself have occasional sleep paralysis and over time I discovered that it is most likely to occur when I am overheated as I sleep. Sleep dysfunction is usually associated with your physical environment (snoring, apnea, being too hot or too cold, etc) rather than your mental state. Although increased stress can sometimes be a factor.

 I'm not a sleep specialist, but I would recommend keeping a journal of the conditions surrounding your episodes of night terrors. If you can identify a common trigger between events, then work on eliminating that trigger. If you can't identify an obious environmental trigger, then you should probably make an appointment for a sleep study with a medical sleep specialist. A psychatrist probably can't help you with this issue.