When your dreams could kill you
Imagine waking up covered in blood with a paramedic at your side. Or convinced every night you will choke in your sleep. Eimear O’Hagan explores the all-too-real realm of night terrors Opening her eyes, Emelie Hryhoruk stared in confusion at the two paramedics crouched by her bedside. Sitting bolt upright in bed in her home near Bath, her confusion turned to horror as she took in the splatters of blood on her carpet. ‘I had absolutely no idea what had happened, or why paramedics were in my house in the middle of the night,’ says Emelie, 37, an artist and mother of two. ‘I was a...