i think i am experiencing night terrors or something similar anyone have any input?

i have never experienced anything like this before, but i remember years ago when i was about 13, i woke up in my bed and was unable to move my body for a few moments. not sure it that is related to this or not. i am a 25 yr old female with severe anxiety and moderate depression and have been recieving medication for it for years and this week i had two scary experiences the first one felt real in the beginning and then at the end i realized it was a dream because my brother lives far away from my home and i had been asleep for hours when this first one occured. i think it might have been likely that they both happened at the similar time and the second ecperience i had just laid down to go to sleep around 5 a.m. or so and it felt like the second one started very shortly after i rolled over after watching a tv show i took my glasses off and laid listening to the end of the show. i didnt want to miss it but ii couldnt really keep my eyes open i was really tired. but the first experience on monday, 9/8/14 which i was sleeping and i heard someone knocking on my outside door, then jiggling of my door  handle then my   door  flying open, before that i couldnt really open my eyes an when the door  opened it was my brother and i didnt feel scared anymore. but last night 9/12/14 i was terrified. i dont even feel i was asleep when it started. shortly after i laid down i could hear someone knocking on my door i was not getting up to answer it i remember every thing that happened with both of these experiences. after the knocking i could hear my screen shut this happened three times but the third time i didnt hear the screen shut. then i heard the door open slowly and quietly like they were trying to not wake anyone. i sleep on my couch because it is just me and my two young children here so i feel more safe sleeping there incase an intruder god forbid would break in and if my kids wake up i am here for them. after i hear the door, i hear light foot steps then i hear the voice of a man i know saying my name and wake up. i try to turn over and say why are you in here and i could barely understand what i was trying to say i couldnt have been asleep because i could still hear the tv program i was watching before i removed my glasses and rolled over to go to sleep this seemed to start shortly after i rolled over. then i hear him again say my name and wake up my eyes were open, but at first it was very hard to keep them open i was looking at my ceiling but couldnt turn my head far enough to see past my tv. i could tell he was standing at the edge of my kitchen right at the carpet line because i could hear his low voice pretty well like he was close to me i didnt get touched but my heart was racing with fear. i then tried yelling for my oldest son who is five but i couldnt even understand what i was saying and i kept trying to straighten my leg out to let him know i was awake it was almost like i was too tired to fully awake. i kept trying to move and speak but i was unable he kept saying my name and wake up every minute or so. i could feel his presence in the room and i could clearly hear what was being said on the tv. it seemed like all this happened in five minutes or so, now remember i really believe i was awake because i was looking at my ceiling and tv and what i heard on the tv corrosponded with the show that was on. i stretched my leg out to roll over and before i stretched out my leg, i managed to move from my right side to my back, but wasnt flat on my back then again i stretched my same leg out that i had already straightned out once before and did that three times at this point im terrified. then i heard him swirl his glass i could hear the ice hitting the glass and again i heard him say wake up finally after that i was able to turn over and immediately looked and noone was there. my heart was racing even faster at this point it was soo scary i couldnt stop looking around from my couch the door was shut what made me be able to lay back down was i realized i have a chain on my door and i would have heard my door being kicked in. it felt so real i really thought he broke into my house. as i laid back down i felt my pulse on my neck and it was racing faster. do you think that was a night terror?

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