Night Terrors/Sleeping Panic Attacks?

every time i dream lately its a disaster

i just took a nap.

all i remember is the world- the whole world jolting away from us- sideways and otherwise-and me somehow knowing that the earth was shattering. that the atmosphere would soon collapse. all i wanted was to get inside. i was outside of granny's house.i started trying to crawl but the oxygen was already robbed thoroughly from me there was rubble and the concrete was torn up. I Yelled as loud as I could that I loved them all, name by name. my family.. I had nearly passed out there, in front of granny's house... and my youngest sister (a 10 year gap).. comes wandering out. shes upset. everyone is falling asleep. "shhhh shhh shh shh... it's okay" i tell her to lay down with me and that its just a funny day and that we're all just tired from such a weird day, so come and lay down and it'll all feel better soon... where terror prevailed, all i wanted was to calm her fears.. and i close my eyes

and I wake up. and the world is not collapsing as far as i can tell
but i feel robbed of air.

i feel like i've been having panic attacks in my sleep and my brain is getting creative with them. to feel the whole world collapse intimately.. only to wake up and have your cat trying to comfort you. hot tears falling while replaying imagined emotional traumas in life-like vivid detail and it keeps happening.
not this exact dream.
but terror, death, family, doom over and over when i close my eyes- waking up gasping with elevated heart rate.
people say you don't remember night terrors but this feels like... something close? i've woken up mute in terror crying and sobbing so many times now
what can i do to stop this. how do i fight my unconscious. I wish i could control my dreams. i have tried lucid dreaming techniques. i open books -and somehow find readable text. clocks display sensible times. everything seems plausible as it happens and is backed up with sensory information form everywhere.
i feel incredibly lost and powerless.

I do not know if you are in Therapy, but these kind of dreams accompany doing therapy. The old world, ways of seeing and feeling are collapsing around you. It can be scary entering a new world of seeing and feeling. Panic can result.

I'm not currently in therapy. I am just an extremely empathetic person and the political climate, my immediate work environment, and my home environment are all chaotic, as well as my financial situation. Im also laden with guilt about not taking good enough care of my cat and being 2000+ miles from my entire family since I moved after college- particularly my younger siblings and my grandmother.

A sleep specialist is in order here there are studies done at overnight places and that was how i found out i had sleep apnea. they study other things such as night terrors and narcolepsy too and other stuff. good luck!!