as I had terrible dreams when I was a child. For years I thought I was one of those "abductee" types because of these awful dreams. Especially as a child, I would feel like I was paralyzed, like I would awaken from a semi-sleeping state with something holding me down, and yet I couldn't move, or do a darn thing about it. This actually continued to happen, like every 4 years or so, until I was in my 30's.
A phonecall to my folks' at 3 in the morning had my dad coming to take me out of my own home, away from hubby, to their apartment, where Mom had a bed made for me with Alexander Scourby tapes of him reading from the bible.
I know she prayed heavily for me, as I've never had those kinds of dreams since.