REM Behavior Disorder

[drivenexplorer]

I am a 23 year old female, and I think I have had similar symptoms related to RBD since I was young. I have been known to be a kicker in bed..but
I can only think of 3 really violent episodes. All of these have been related to a dream I was having. The 3 time was actually early this morning, I was dreaming about my fiance' telling me he was seeing another woman, and I woke up elbowing him and hitting him! He got pretty upset at first and I felt terrible, and he laughed about it later but I think it is kind of serious. It happened before sometime I woke up hitting him because of a similar dream. Once when I was younger I woke up slapping and yelling at my brother in the backseat of our parents car because of something he was doing in my dream. I always wake up kind of while I am doing it and realize pretty much immediatly that I am awake. I am scared because I probably won't sleep in bed with my future children because of all of this.

I also experience sleep paralysis, where I am mentally fully awake, but my body is not. Most of the time it is just blackness, sometimes i feel like I am just floating around in the room or spinning. Sometimes I get very afraid and pray to wake up until I eventually do, sometimes I enjoy it slightly. It is usually when I am falling asleep during daytime naps. It does not happen to often but I have experienced this since I was very young.