Horrifying Dreams?

[Argranade]

So sorry you have to go threw this, It sounds really terrifying.

I have experienced other things like I'll wake up really fast at night because I'm scared my heart stopped.

It's all in my head but it scares me, I think it's all from stress.

[smokey the elder]

I saw somewhere that the sensation of sleep paralysis happens when your brain wakes up before your body, in reverse of the usual order of things. I've had it very mildly a few times, but I think I have an analytical enough mind that I go, "OK, body, time to boot up!" It scared the *&$! out of me before I understood what the mechanism was.

[lizbud]

Wow, I must be an odd duck then because I've never had these sleep/
dream episodes. I've had dreams where I want to wake up & I do. If a
dream becomes scary, I always wake up.