what was it?

Hello,

I'm new here. I was wondering if you knew what this might be. It hasn't happened in a while but I'd be interested to hear what others think it may have been.

I used to think they were OOBE experienced but maybe it was lucid dreaming or even now I think they were night panic attacks.

Some years back when I was going through a stressful time I would awake at night, I couldn't move but I knew I was dreaming and I would hear this funny rustling sound and it felt like I was on a roller coaster. It was a mixture of fear and excitement. Sometimes I would awaken and feel very exhausted. This would happen every night for months, sometimes 3 - 5 times a night. It would mostly happen when I wanted it to. At around the same time I was also having dreams where I knew I was dreaming and couldn't wake myself up. Sometimes there were stories involved but other times I would be lying in bed and although I had my eyes closed I could see my room, sometimes objects in my room for example a bunch of flowers became a scary cats head moving around and hissing at me. Most times I felt like something evil was in the room with me, maybe hiding under my bed. Another time I was sure I had an OBB where I was kind of in control and I was flying and my hair was flicking on my face. I flew into a house through their window and their pet dog saw me and barked like mad at me but noone else saw me. I am still quite sure this may have been real. I wasn't scared, at this time I was intrigued.

A couple of years ago I had a panic attack which took me back to the times I had the above experiences. Could it have been that all this time I had been having night panic attacks and didn't know it and thought they were OOBEs? It has a similar feeling to panic attacks I had recently.

Any ideas?
Thanks.