Anyone else suffer from night terrors like this?

Never really spoken to anyone about this and really hoping to find my people who suffer from the same thing to help me cope...

Since I was very young I have had night terrors off and on depending on the stress level in my life. It always goes... I don't remember any specific dream or occurrence that led to the terror, but I will wake up randomly in the middle of the night gasping for air, heart racing and sweating with this awful feeling of dread. I call it my existential crisis mode because it's always this overwhelming fear of death. The fact that I will die someday and there is nothing I can do about it just floods my body and I can't make it stop. I just have to wait it out... trying to calm my breathing and often times just get up and watch a movie to try and go back to sleep... often times not being able to sleep anymore that night and I'm often sleep deprived.

The fear of death has always loomed over my head. I have gotten better at controlling it while I'm awake as an adult and it doesn't affect me during the day anymore. I can't trigger it by thinking on it...it doesn't stop me from doing things (I work for a hospital and have been in the ER etc with no trigger to it)... I don't worry every day about dangers that could cause my death necessarily and I lead a pretty normal life, but these random terrors are insane. My earliest memories of one such occurrence is when I was maybe kindergarten age and I woke up screaming and crying telling my parents my dolls couldn't breathe in the pile of stuffed animals in my room.... am I just plain crazy or have other people experienced the same sense of hysteria?

Any tips on soothing this or just plain camaraderie in this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys 🖤