Vivid disconcerting dreams can happen. For me, it would cause sleep paralysis where my brain would wake up and I could not move my body. I would be wide awake

Vivid disconcerting dreams can happen. For me, it would cause sleep paralysis where my brain would wake up and I could not move my body. I would be wide awake and paralyzed. Then panic as I felt like I could not control my breathing and would imagine that if an emergency happened I would be entirely immobilized. Personally I used these moments as teaching moments and worked through them but it’s hard to explain the sheer terror of waking up, fully alert and fully “locked in.”