Jeanie has had the same very vivid bad dream twice in the last couple of weeks. In the dream, she is being chased through a dense forest. In this dream, she tries to run fast but she feels like she is "running through molasses," and when she tries to scream within this dream, she cannot seem to open her mouth. Jeanie then wakes up with a start and has a great deal of trouble going back to sleep
Jeanie is most likely experiencing
a. a nightmare.
b. a night terror.
c. somnambulism.
d. hypersomnia.
A
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