Weird experiences.

All my life i have had "troubles" with night terrors, at least i think that is the right term. I remember asking my mother about it a couple of years ago, as it seemed like it suddenly came back to me from being suppressed. Which is a bit weird since i have been having from time to time all through my life, and according to my mom almost every night when i was really young. The night terrors have been weird, but i can only recall so little of them as they tend to be suppressed heavily especially by younger individuals. What i know, is that there is a recurring theme of the world ending in a highly abstract way.

What i wanted to tell about, and get some opinions on is another parasomnia phenomenon which i experience quite often. And that is waking dreaming, but not in the way of being awake in the dream but the other way around.
I often wake in a place i have never been, see someone or something in my room. This can be things like small animals, birds or insects, or the little more scary stuff like black figures or a small gnomish thing.

I know for a fact that i do not have sleep paralysis during these experiences (and have never experienced paralysis) and that i am in fact awake, as the visions fade as some time pass by and i stay awake. What separates this from the night terror is the duration, the fact that i'm not scared out of my mind, and that i actually can recall this almost perfectly. Have anyone experienced something similar or can help me shed some light on this whole ordeal? :wtf:

I used to have nightmares every night when I was a child, and the stress of those nightmares and the imagery would make me hallucinate monsters while awake, so that's one possibility of why you were having that happen to you.

Google hypnogogia and it's opposite.