Thank You,Doo.i'm sorry you can relate though...

Yes, I this happens to me on a routine basis and has for. . . Perhaps my entire 62 years? I speculate I caught the habit in the womb where I was living with my mother's anxiety issues. I was her 5th pregnancy and she was on the brink of leaving her own birth family and hometown rather than give up the denial that she had married a bi-sexual pedophile. Just a theory.

My decades of therapy have barely put a dent in the rate of occurrence. The theory I subscribe to is that the hyphae run too deep and wide in my psyche to expect eradication. I have, however, grown a substantial awareness of the experience. Plying therapy tools at the first wave of the nag flag minimizes the collateral damage.

Still sucks, though. Both figuratively and literally. It is as draining on my physical system as it is on my psychic system. Equally sorry you can relate.

Thank You,arfie...."substantial awareness"..yes.
And yes,it really is draining...sorry you experience it as well..

Aww I'm sorry, yea same stuff happens to me late nights in my apartment. I hope tonight is better for you.
Support & hugs

Thank You,lilmissy...

Yes. It doesn't happen to me but to my mom who is suffering with post traumatic stress. Last night she had the same experience. She awoke up before twelve midnight and did not return back to sleep until after 3:00 am. She to woke to fear from thoughts and a bad dream. One of the fears is mom was suggested to go into a nursing home so she could get help with physical therapy. When she was told that, it made her very upset and fearful, it made mom fearful of thinking that they wanted to remove mom from the home where she is very familiar with and away from me and my brother.

Yes I do understand and relate with you.

I have migraine and seizures and I get intense fear out of the blue as a form of aura just before a migraine or seizure. I usually get these at night and for me they are called nocturnal migraine or nocturnal seizures. I also have a sleep disorder. You could consider seeing a sleep doctor and having a sleep study done or even seeing a neurologist if this happens on a regular basis. But I know how intense the fear can be and that is scary, waking up with heart racing. I usually put all the lights on and try to comfort myself by turning on calming music to reassure myself that I'm okay.

I get this feeling. I can be ok one minute then the next it's like am scared of everything. I jump when the gate goes or I hear a car out side.

Winter-i'm so sorry your mom goes through this and is having such intense fears..

Novembergirl-That's interesting...i have epilepsy and suffer from migraines as well...i've not seen my neuro in a long time.i had a sleep study done,but they didn't tell me anything i didn't know already...they were quite useless in fact.
i'm sorry you are suffering from this..

sarah-i'm so sorry you too have to go through this.