u/Beautiful-Ad3594

Hi everyone. I have a problem often when I sleep. I don’t think it’s night terrors because I remember it clearly and although I experience the terror, I only occasionally trash around and scream but I always remember it. It’s basically a dream writhing a dream, I wake up, or so I think. And something strange happens. Once it was waking up to hear footsteps in the house, my partner got up to see what it was and a hooded figure came in the room and tried to strangle him. I woke up screaming and tried to wake him up, realising it was a dream, he wouldn’t wake up. Then I woke up again and this time I really was a wake and crying and he was confused and said nothing of the sort has happened. Sometimes it’s very strange benign things like waking up and seeing a kangaroo standing in my room and other bizarre things. I know I’m dreaming and I try to wake myself up only to be woken up in another dream. It happens over and over and when I do wake up I’m afraid to fall asleep again. Does anyone else experience anything like this? I do not have childhood trauma but have experienced a lot of trauma in the last couple of years due to a death in the family and other distant family issues.