I keep having this recurring dream where I'm trapped in a dark box, gasping for air. The dream feels like it stretches for an eternity and I cannot breathe. My lungs begin to scream for oxygen and that's the point where I wake up gasping for air, as if I was not actually breathing. After calming myself down, I go back to sleep, only to have the same dream about the small box, gasping for air. It feels like the box is a coffin and that I'm being or am already buried alive.

I asked my roommate to listen to my breathing patterns when I slept, and he said that I never stopped breathing, but that my breathing did become very rapid, as if I was in a panic.