Thread: Choking, not once but twice?

Twice within the past three weeks or so, my dreams ended with me choking and it's pretty scary.

The first occurred around three in the morning. I looked at the clock and it said 3:06 when I finally fell asleep. In my dream, I was in the backseat of my car, frantically trying to lock the doors. I think it was a parking lot of sorts, because other cars were around, but no people. It was nighttime, but I don't know what I was afraid of. Then I heard whispering, a man, saying his name was Manny, to not forget that and I would be fine, that I needed to trust him. For some reason then, I was unlocking the door and stepping out of the car, and as I was closing it, I saw a dark shadowy figure with no discernable features in the window's reflection. I was instantly terrified, and I tried to wake myself up because I knew on some level that it was a dream, only I couldn't at first. I fell to the ground and felt the figure moving in closer, and I just knew that he was coming for me and that I was in trouble. I woke up, feeling like I was choking, and I looked around my room, expecting to see someone there for some reason, but I didn't.

The second time, I was having a regular dream in which I was some sort of modern girl version of King Arthur and I was kicking serious butt with my sword. It was a bizarre dream, not exactly pleasant, but I was enjoying it and think I had some control over it.

Then all of a sudden, I felt as though people (almost child-like in size) were piling on top of me...wrapping their legs around my neck, choking and smothering me. I couldn't see their faces or anything, and I began to get really panicked when they didn't listen to my pleas to get off of me. At first I thought it was people playing around, but they ignored me and the hold around my neck grew tighter and tighter until I couldn't talk. The sense of alarm was very intense. It was even more urgent than it was in the first nightmare.

I felt like I was dying.

I woke up, then, and was really weirded out because again, this was the second time I woke up feeling like I was choking to death in such a short period of time, and to my recollection, I've never had that happen in a dream before. And the...atmosphere or setting of the dream changed dramatically from the rest of what I was dreaming--it didn't fit at all.

So I guess...any thoughts would be more than welcome.