Terrifying vivid dream after only half an hour of sleep?

[flow22]

I'm a 15 year old girl. I have some trouble sleeping, usually getting to sleep at around 2am, waking up at 7am. I am healthy. I fell asleep for about half an hour, and had the most horribly vivid, terrifying dream, and i could feel myself in the dream wanting to wake up, and am now too scared to go to sleep incase it occurs again. I also woke up with very sore, red eyes. I'm scared i'll never want to sleep again that is how scary this dream was, can anyone tell me why I got this dream only 30 minutes into sleeping? and what i could do to make me want to sleep? Thank you

[Nina32]

I used to have the same dreams. Its because your body decides to stay asleep and your mind awake. So it makes it seem like you can't wake up. Physically you're asleep but mentally your brain is wide aawake. I leaerned this in my psychology class. Which made me feel better and now I can sleep. I hope this helped you like it helped me.

[tennisrookie]

Im sorry to hear you had such a bad dream; There are many reasons you could of had the bad dream; medication, eating late, something that happened or you seen. Maybe you heard something, you might want to talk with your parents or something you can confide in to help you through whats going on with your subconscious. Speak with your school counselor.

If I have a bad dream like you had, I sleep with the light on and also pray so I don''t have it again and that I can go back to sleep.

Sleep well.

[galnextdoor2]

it sounds like there is something u are scared of. Try sleeping with someone else in the same room, this provides a sense of security.