Night Terrors?

Rome has been having some problems sleeping the last few days. Not with going to sleep, but with staying asleep without waking up screaming and crying. This is new for us, our kids have always been good sleepers. Seriously, it's like their true talents - all 3 of them. They all sleep in their beds, through the night, and have done so pretty much their whole lives. Nightmares are a VERY rare occurance, in fact I think Capri has told us she had a bad dream maybe twice in her life.

A few days ago however, Rome was sick with a fever and had fallen asleep on the couch by Jeff. I was out with the girls and when we got home, Rome woke up crying and was VERY VERY distressed. It was like nothing I've ever seen. He was so upset and I could not console him no matter what I did. He was incomprehensible, we couldn't understand hardly anything that came out of his mouth. It was like some scary evangelist speaking in tongues. To top it off, and this was the really weird part - he would NOT look at me or Jeff. I'd say, "Rome, look at me with your eyes" and he'd say "OK" (that was the one thing we COULD understand) and would act like he was trying to look at us. Instead his eyes would be way over to the side, like he couldn't see us. It freaked me out, but eventually he calmed down and laid on the couch.

For the last couple nights he's woken up crying and upset. Not as bad as that first night but very similar. Last night he was pretty bad, all I could understand him saying was that he wanted daddy, and that something kept moving fast. Then he'd sort of point in the direction of his dresser. A few minutes ago he woke up from a nap on the couch and was crying and upset, but seemed awake. Again his speech was so slurred that I couldn't understand him. Now he's sitting on my lap and seems fine.

I'm not really sure what's going on. A friend suggested that it may be a type of sleep walking, like he's asleep and that's why his speech is slurred and can't seem to see me. Then I remembered an episode of House where a kid was having night terrors. I looked them up online but they don't seem to be exactly what Rome has been experience, similar but not exact.

So I'm wondering if anybody has an idea of what this could be. I know there are a lot of mom's and doctor's wives out there, got any suggestions? Have any of you had kids with night terrors, does this sound familiar to what you experienced?