Nightly nightmares

I'm sick of going to sleep and having nightmares. I can't seem to wake myself out of them either. I fear going to bed every night. Most of the time, I don't even know what they mean. I wake up in the middle of a panic attack every night. I also have trouble falling back to sleep. Please tell me that I'm not alone in this.

According to my sleep i do get nightmares every night. sometimes I can feel myself trying to get out of my body and wake myself up on my own which is very hard to do. I have the most bizarre dreams and they are usualy about people in different situations. Sometimes I dream of huge insectes or animals. I can even hear what they sound like. I think I have this because of medication affects because I dont know what else to think it could be since i dont use street drugs or drink alcohol. This has also been going on ever since I was in a terrible accident in the 1980s when they started.