Extremely bad night terrors.

Hi everyone, I'm new here and found this website initially for a different reason. I'll start by saying I'm not using any drugs or alcohol, just recently quit light drinking, smoking herb, and some pain pill use, but the pill use was only for about a month. I have had some marital issues lately but I've had those before and never experienced this before..

It's hard to explain, but I'll try, just got woken up from one or maybe I made myself wake up, I don't know. The dream isn't a reoccurring dream in the details of scenery, or situation. Just the evil is the same in the dream. It's like..it can be anyone, anyone it can consume and take. It's relentless in it's attempts to get me, and it can be temporarily fought by..I guess letting off my "strength, or will in a shout, kind of like charging my energy, like a kamehameha from DBZ if you ever seen that show" but it's only temporary, and I'm always running, or driving or even on boats to get away. There are other people, who know about it and they try to fight it to but when they can't they fail and disappear into it. Originally when it started the others in my dreams told me about "safe zones" but now the safe zones can't hold it back anymore. The one I just woke from started with my wife and I in a house fighting them off but ultimately falling and getting into a car in the night and trying to drive away..we made it too a friends of hers seeking refuge and her friend was kind and offered to go back to the house with us, even though she thought we were crazy. See the thing is, one she believed or informed it was invited to her..or her house and it quickly consumed her, and that's where I lost my wife as well. I ran and ran into a really bad crime filled neighborhood only too find no real shelter. From there I tried making it to a safe zone, and that's when I learned the safe zones were failing people and there was panic and chaos all around. So I got onto a ship with others, some who knew of it and others seemingly unaware. The ship's were always supposed to be safe, always..but it found a way on and me and others tried fighting it and tried to save the innocent ones but it kept consuming them, their souls and identities and physical form as well. It could be whoever it wanted if it had consumed that victim, and it can move about like a spirit, no physical laws applied to it. I shouted and shouted and screamed until my voice was gone fighting it off, but like I said it'd be temporary. Then once my voice was gone all I could do was try to use my spirit energy or life force to fight it and everything was crashing in around me like the entire ship was in a head on collision like a car. That's when I woke up.

I will also say I have been taking Zoloft but it isn't prescribed for me but it had helped in many aspects of my day to day life so that's why I took it, and take it. I've never been someone to suffer from bad dreams often, in fact I welcome zombie apocalypse dreams because I'm always winning and saving others...but this is different..it's like I can feel it inside my body and soul and it is legitimately scaring me, and I'm 26 year old man who has seen first hand very dark parts of real life. When I originally awoke my first thought was to call an ambulance and go to the hospital but I decided to just stay up and for a minute and then I remembered seeing the "dream section" so I came here for...I guess advice or thoughts...I don't know, I just know I can't live like this waking up every night. Thanks for reading.

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Hello, asheepywolf.

Sleep terrors (night terrors) Definition - Diseases and Conditions - Mayo Clinic
Nightmares Definition - Diseases and Conditions - Mayo Clinic

Thanks, I just read the link. I will go ahead and say my mother suffered from them but I didn't know until she was on her deathbed and my siblings told me. I was never close to her because when I was 8 me and four of my sister's were taken to an orphanage after she left my father for another man and abandoned us with him and the living conditions were so bad someone sought help for us. I do remember her saying, to me and my sister's said "the dark man is coming to get me" the last few days before she died. Also, I have suffered a head injury, I had my skull fractured pretty badly intervening on a would be attacker of my then pregnant wife. Im going to see a therapist in 5 days for other issues but Im almost scared too even go back to sleep at this time and wonder if I need to seek emergency help.

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Can you see your primary care doc sooner? Maybe you can actually get a prescription for meds. Of course, you can seek emergency help if you are really upset, but if you can wait, then that would be fine.