Oh, yes. By all means, yes. I have also heard it described as sleep terrors. If I am correctly inferring what you mean, you can see your actual bed, room, etc. around you, so that you feel awake; but there are also these dream entities, seen or simply perceived, such as your unseen shadows. You can awaken from such a dream state by forcing yourself to move or speak aloud - just a little bit, if that's all you can do. Then, don't let yourself drift back to sleep until you have gotten up and walked about a bit. Then it should not return that night. My most serious sequence of such dreams occurred during the last few months of a long-term regimen of the tricyclic antidepressant tofranil, maximum dosage. And then the dreams increased tremendously, when I was abruptly taken off the medication. They recurred at intervals for perhaps several weeks but then disappeared. It's as though, in such an experience, we get caught in the place where wakefulness becomes sleep and vice versa. I'm glad someone posted something I know a little about, from personal experience. Thanks! It's nice to know one is not alone in one's craziness! Cheers! billieJ