I am one of the most prone people to night terrors. When I try to wake up my body is frozen. I cannot move . I try to speak and scream but nothing comes out. My body feels like a lead weight and the nightmare takes place outside the dream in the real world!! 
It is especially frightning when you are located by a window. They seem to happen to me most on full moons and are at their worst then. My worst night night terror happened when I was 13. I woke up so frightened that I went into shock. My whole body became unable to move. I could still feel the dream echoing in my head and had to go to the bathroom bad. I was too frightened to cross the dark hallway that led to the pitchblack livingroom. I refused to move until I could not hold back going to the bathroom and ran across the hall like a marathon runner. My Night Terrors consist of but are not limited to moving objects and music that freezes me up to the spot. I sleepwalk too but differently. A few nights ago I fell asleep for five minutes then stood up…I was disoriented and confused as it was an LD…then I collapsed to the hardwood floor and stood up suddenly…wide awake. These are frightning expereiences and I wish I could change them into good dreams…but I cannot no matter how hard I try? What do I do? 
Rather than a nightmare or night terrors, it sounds more like sleep paralysis ( SP )and Hypnopompic Hallucination ( which appear or stay with us when we are waking up. They are created by our subconscious. But are different from LDs and AP because they occur when we are arousing ourselves from sleep)
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It’s a Sleep Paralysis after a sort of agitated nightmare.
Every dream is intended to train and improve ourselves for real life, they are mostly inspired by our last day moments, our fears and ambitions, sometimes they get into something bad, a nightmare…
As you get yourself trained and aware about dreams, and your dream world(s) it should get easier.
It has been like this since that fateful day when serious head trauma was induced. The fall may have affected the area of my mind since the doctor said it caused some brain damage. I’m thinking that area has been affected. I don’t have what you would call normal dreams. In fact they wouldn’t make any sense to anybody here.
Maybe you have been transformed into a natural lucid dreamer now. If you can’t change that (have you visited a doctor?) try to see it from an opossite view. There are some techniques there to this forum which can help you become lucid in your dreams while you are in a SP state.
I highly reccomend to visit a doctor and report these before you start any other form of “therapy”, because with our mind we must be very careful…
I would like to hear a couple of these dreams you refer to, if you want to share them of course 
e.g.If you don’t want to have LD or SP again, you could keep your eyes closed the next time SP happens again. Then try to move to “vanish” the SP’s effect, and then sleep again 
I will share them…not all were bad…there was one…I made my way up onto a plateau out in nature somewhere and I stood up and looked over and I saw exactly this…
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it was long ago but I can remember it like last night’s dream…it was wonderful…like I was actually touching the heavens…
It seems to me like you are having Sleep Paralysis, not night terrors. I have night terrors every now and then, it is when you simply sit up in bed screaming, wide eyed, except you don’t remember any of it.
I’ll tell you about one true Night Terror I had…it was very short lived and happened many years ago…but I will never forget it…I was in the house of my old foster parents and I had done nothing wrong…but they told me I had to take a time out.(I was very young back then…about ten). I protested and whined but they did not give in. I knew something bad was about to happen here and I went to a stool and sat down. Now this was situated on a counter with a wall in front of me. Now there was two walkways into the hallway and there were two doorways into a large but very dark room. As soon as I noticed this dark room i became dead silent. Then I heard some loud noises in that room…it was a playroom and some music like that of a midi sequence played and it would be enough to make your blood turn icy cold with fear…I froze in my spot and put my head down and closed my eyes onto the counter and then woke up in bed trembling with fear and terror. 
I was soaked with sweat but as uncomfortable as I was i would not budge…I barely breathed as my heart was pounding with fear…the Night Terror still echos in my head to this day…
@ Lord Syn - In a night terror, you move about and appear to be “awake” to others. Your previous post appears to be a bad nightmare.
Quoted from wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terror …
[i]Night terrors are distinct from nightmares in several key ways. First, the subject is not fully awake when roused, and even when efforts are made to awaken the sleeper, he/she may continue to experience the night terror for ten to twenty minutes. Unlike nightmares, which occur during REM sleep, night terrors occur during slow-wave sleep, the deepest levels of non-REM sleep and mainly the 4th stage of sleep… click the following link to view all the stages of sleep. Even if awakened, the subject often cannot remember the episode except for a sense of panic, while nightmares usually can be easily recalled. The subject often has no recollection of the incident.
Unlike nightmares, which are frequently dreams of a frightening nature, night terrors are not dreams. Usually there is no situation or event (scary or otherwise) that is dreamt, but rather the emotion of fear itself is felt. Often, this is coupled with tension and apprehension without any distinct sounds or visual imagery, although sometimes a vague object of fear is identified by the sufferer. [/i]
My most terrible of nightmares are triggered when I have had too much to eat or have had a considerable amount of chocolate before I go to sleep…I’m not sure why though.