Question: I experience night terrors in clusters (4 or 5 in a week sometimes and then none for a while) in while I am jolted awake with a pounding heart and feeling of complete terror.
If my husband is already in bed I’ll talk jibberish to him until he manages to wake me or if he’s not in bed I’ll run into the living room (in my sleep) and wake up often sobbing.My terrors are thematic – I have a feeling that my entire world/life is a contrived reality and that it’s all about to end… I also “see” terrifying lights and shapes in my bedroom, eg my curtain is a creature, or often I’ll wake up with the feeling that the world has ended and look out the window ready to see everything has disappeared.I don’t remember these as a child but I was a frequent sleepwalker, as was my brother.