I've had terrifying dreams at different points in my life. Recently I might have had a hypomanic episode that lasted a while, now I'm coming down with depressive symptoms, and my dreams are more like hallucinations, all about gross giant bugs crawling all over me, dripping disgusting things on me. I can't tell when I fall asleep or when I awake from them, I just scream in my bed, heart pounding, it takes me forever to figure out nothing's there. Super disorienting. Glad to know I'm not the only one. I'm sorry we have to go through this, our minds have such dark corners in them!