My mother has told me that I've "woken" up about 2 times throughout the night sometimes, acting in a very strange way. She's video recorded me both times. I was very moody, still half-asleep in a way and I was asking a lot of questions. I don't remember this at all. The only one that I remember was whenever she woke me up because we had to go somewhere quickly. I got up, looked at my mom and asked her "who are you?" She asked me what I was talking about and then I yelled "where is the owner of this house?" I was extremely confused myself, as I knew it was my mother I was looking at but I couldn't mentally figure out if it was really her. Shortly after each of these episodes, I get a terrible panic attack that doesn't go away for a few hours. This has happened probably 2-3 times in the past few months and I don't understand it at all. I'd highly appreciate some info and advice on this. Thanks for answering
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When you sleep, there's a part of your brain which turns off (stopping you doing things like sleepwalking). If this is activated while awake, you'll have sleep paralysis.
Likewise, there are parts of your brain that switch on while you are asleep to allow you to dream. If these are activated while waking (or not turned off soon after waking), you'll have these disordered thoughts. It's nothing to worry about (unless it starts happening all the time), and it's happened to me too. My mum woke me up and the only word I could say was bread. All my sentences were "bread bread bread bread" and I was very panicky about it because I couldn't get my point across.