Usually, or so I know, children have theses dreams called night terrors. What usually happens is the child wakes up in a complete terror state, confused and not totally aware. If you would ask that child what his dream was, he wouldn't be able to answer, for he wouldn't remember. This phenomena is quite normal and happens to a good percentage of the population.

What is unusual, is for adults to have those kind of dreams, in fact I never even heard of it. It happened to me. I woke up in the middle of the night, im not sure if i did or not scream. In complete terror, i got up, half naked (i was dressed up when I went to sleep) walking very quickly in the apartment. I snapped out of it after 2 or 3 minutes, in the bathroom, still very afraid of apparently nothing. The dream I could remember was extremely vague, and can only be resumed by the reversal of something in my body. No clear vision, image, just the concept of having something in the body reversed. Again, nothing clear as to what was reversed. Went back to bed, still very afraid. Took me a long time to get back to sleep.

Anyone else ever heard of night terrors outside of children?