during the night

I had one of those terrible dreams. The kind where you wake up in a panic, with a shout, sit up straight in the bed and try to catch your breath, get your grounding. Focus. But you’ve really only woken up inside the dream and so you’re still sleeping and you haven’t sat up and shouted at all. Somehow in the dream, or in your sleeping head, you know this, but you still can’t move to wake – or don’t. And it just keeps happening over and over again. Finally snapped out of it, feeling exhausted.