If you suffer from night terrors/nightmares like this, I highly suggest using opiates to counteract the brain chemical imbalance. Start with something mild like codeine, I've found methadone completely cures it - just be an adult and use it responsibly for self-medication.
Comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable
Bad ideal. After being off prescription opiates and developing a horrible addiction that lost me my house, car, and broke up my family and lost my children, and meeting MANY others with the same problem, bad suggestion. They are highly addictive.
Any way, I have been off them for years but was prescribed a few for a really bad tooth extraction that damaged my jaw. I took one after it and fell asleep that night on the couch and had my first sleep paralysis episode in years. Terrifying. Both the sleep paralysis and recommending anyone to get on opiates.