I’ve had a few of the standard ones over the years: can’t stop the vehicle your driving, teeth crumbling or similar, being chased and unable to fight back effectively, realizing you are not wearing pants or similar, etc.

The one that really freaked me out was one where I had a high powered semi-auto rifle for some reason, and I shot some ‘bad guys’ at night out on the street somewhere. Then one of my close relatives suddenly appeared and I shot them too almost just by reflex. They didn’t seem to be that upset by it, but it was very realistic in the dream, seeing the bullet wounds on them that were seemingly quite likely to be fatal. It quickly just became that intense panic feeling, like I fucked up big time! I killed my close relative! I’m a terrible evil person, and everyone is going to know it!

I woke up shortly after watching them die in front of me. I was in a total panic sweat in bed. I had to contact my relative in the middle of the night just to reassure myself. Then I eventually fell asleep again, but not until after being wound up for a while asking myself ‘WTF was that shit?!?!’