Nightmares
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- invisiblechamber0
most of the above sounds very familiar to me. happens to me since childhood. i have only german info-links here but i think what jaline posted is about it. sleep paralysis. that paralysis itself is no disorder. its normal function is to prevent you from moving around while sleeping. only when it does not stop freezing your body in sync with waking up it gives you this terrible being-trapped feeling. so it's no nightmare but a brain-awake / body-asleep state - bad dreams just come as a reaction to this. i read stuff about it - remembering some facts: about 20% of all people have it (but most of them don't know and think it's just nightmares), it happens more often in summer, dreams within dreams are explained through this phenomenon. it is the medical reverse of sleepwalking. trying to wake up oneself is a common reaction (i found out that if you don't try this and can manage to become aware of this now being this paralysis thing again and calm down it is much less horrible). and ha!: i read some science article once that claimed that this alien abduction frenzy is caused by sleep paralysis - that was years ago - i'm still waiting...