I've been under an unusual amount of stress lately and feeling extremely depressed, so much so that I've been having panic attacks. So last night, I had what I think was a night terror (not just a nightmare) but I wanted to know what others might think it was.

I had one of those dreams where no matter what you can't wake up. You think you're awake only to find that you've awoken from one dream into the next dream and so forth. But eventually it lead to what I think was a night terror. I was still very much asleep and in a dreamy state, but fully paralyzed. I couldn't move my body or cause myself to wake up, even though I could see everything around me. It was hazy and dreamlike, but it was my room. I struggled to scream, but I ended up screaming my lungs out. It was so vivid, I had to have been screaming. I finally woke myself up and I was sweating so much my pillow had wet stains.

I stayed awake the rest of the night. I asked my family if they heard me last night and they said they didn't. This has happened to me before, and normally during extremely stressful times. Was it just a panic attack brought on by the nightmare or was it a night terror?