One series of recurring dreams includes a woman in black… Ever since I was little, I’d have dreams of this woman standing in a hallway or at a door… Just looking at me and watching. She always had her face covered, but I had the feeling her skin was green and emanated a malicious intent. The dreams were always, always, accompanied by a feeling of trapped and unable to move. I ended up attributing these feelings to being somewhere between asleep and awake. Every time, I would know I was awake and yet unable to more than force a gutteral grunt out… Usually I would panic even more when nobody around me would help and wake me up. This became apparently one time with some then-friends who one time just stood around and watched while debating on waking me would kill me or not. Thanks to an old wives tale.
However, the dreams and other typically nightmarish dreams stopped once I started seeing Sachdev and began taking the anti-seizure medication. So now I’m wondering if the seizures and dreams were one in the same to an extent. Googling for night terrors and seizures returns anecdotal evidence that the two can be related, but no medical reports immediately pop out so I’m going to leave this as a strong ‘maybe’ link.