PTSD, Panic attack, or both?
I had a horribly strange night last. I'm not sure if I had a really vivid nightmare at this point or if it was a hallucination. I woke up (I thought) needing to go to the bathroom. But my eyes were all wonky from sleep so I just stayed there for a few moments and decided to look up at the ceiling. Bam! Big ass unrealistic spider-tick the size of a tarantula twitching and coming close. I went from what that crap to holy sh!t panic in a split second and my chest hurt from jumping so fast from cataonic sleeper to run already! But then my logical side kicked in and I looked again and it was gone. From then on I told myself, your just seeing things.
Then I started blinking and it was like I could still see the shape of it only small and I started rubbing my eyes all freaking out thinking maybe I was just seeing a small bug that was on my eyeball! Eventually I just shut my eyes in a mini panic attack and passed out I guess. I remember being so freaked out that I started wondering what else was in the room and imagining just about everything creepy before passing out.
This morning I woke up with a massive headache and I'm wondering was it all just some super-realistic nightmare? I'm not sure, it felt real, I'm pretty sure I was awake. But it doesn't make any sense you know? I guess I should give a little background though. When I was a kid I had PTSD (undiagnosed but it was bad), but it only shows up as a severe panic attack when triggered. I am also very sure I have Severe anxiety, panic, phobias etc.