I have often confused dreams with reality. Like, my dreams sometimes get so realistic that I swear they happened in real life and I even continue to believe it for years! But when I tell my family like, "Do you remember when...." and they tell me that never happened. I never knew that I got them mixed up until they said that. Now I still have specific memories that I only recently started to question how much of these memories are actually from dreams...

My mom said I used to wake up screaming when I was very young, and sometimes I wake up so terrified from my dreams that I can't breathe or I cry hysterically. (When I get nightmares, they are very gruesome...) I'm not sure if this is related, but when I get nightmares they tend to be in clusters, but the worst time was when I once went over 2 months with a nightmare every single time I fell asleep. It got so bad that I went to live with my friend (but that didn't stop them) and I got scared of falling asleep.