From around the age of 15 I began to suffer occasional nightmares unlike anything I have ever experienced. Reading about bad trip experiences, I am now wondering if it is some kind of natural DMT dump.

Upon searching for information about the subject, I came across reports of Night Terrors. But the experiences people related, like awaking to find themselves paralysed, or with the feeling of a malevolent presence nearby, didn't relate.

What I have experienced was never visual like regular dreams, there was no paralysis (I would often sleep walk in a trance), and I had no sensation of others at all. It was a very specific abstract concept that was so monstrous as to render me out of my mind with terror.

The frustrating thing is I can in no way describe the abstract concept, nor can I even think about it. It is beyond the grasp of comprehension, which is probably a good thing.

A wiki article describes it as well as can be expected:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terror

The description of being given an impossible task resonates with me very deeply. I woke up from the state one time with a very clear impression of what it was. Like reliving my life or a task not once, not hundreds of times, but billions of times. Trillions of times.

The concepts aren't necessarily negative, just unbearably infinite. Maybe I could try to assimilate the ideas if I was fully conscious, but one is in a trance.

What makes me feel it could be like a natural trip is there have been times I have awoken after the climax. It is like a wave, and the peak of the wave is the worst time. But just like ducking under a wave while surfing, you can feel the power just sweep over you. That is what it feels like to have avoided its bite. Then I can just switch on a light or watch TV, and become grounded so to speak.

Times when I have awoken in the worst of it, I often find myself out of bed, in the toilet or wandering outside, and I cry to God for help. Instantly help comes, and I then return to bed - maybe not even remembering the next morning (often I've been told after the fact).

I'd be interested if anyone here has suffered night terrors, and if it felt anything like a bad trip.

The effects of DMT and hyperspace seem to indicate our brains have some pretty interesting capabilities, but Night Terrors leads me to believe there are some places our minds were never meant to go.

You have to take the bad with the good to reach deeper. I sometimes wake in night terrors, not sure exactly what is waking me. It's confusing, but I never find myself completely removed from bed. I still do identify with what you are trying to describe, although I find myself becoming more unsettled with my waking mental state. My night terrors are more of a recent trend.

SWIM lived with a girl who would scream like she was being murdered when she had these night terrors. It was scary.

Are you SURE it is a night terror, and not a dream? Dreams only happen during REM stage, night terrors happen early on, usually only in stage 2 (maybe stage 3) sleep. There is no plot behind the terror, just a overwhelming sense of fear.

If this is the case, it is not DMT related i believe- as DMT is only going to be released during REM and never doing the transition, or spindle stages

Maybe it isn't DMT related, because there is nothing visual about the experience. Even bad trip reports mention intense visuals.

I think I remember a passage in the Joyous Cosmology by Alan Watts, where he relates being able to regress backward into his ancestry, even into other species. Eventually he became lost in a maze and started to panic somewhat.

I wonder if the mind has some how gotten lost in this maze, then panics. There is only one way out of the maze - forward.