Is it normal for my dreams to be like this?

my dreams have gotten exceptionally bad recently. they've always been strange, but recently they've become much more difficult to process. in the past, it's been very easy to tell that a dream is just a dream. i'll try to describe them as much as i'm able to in hopes that someone can offer some advice. almost every time i fall asleep, i fall into a pattern of having a normal dream gone completely wrong. something absolutely terrifying will happen, i have the same reoccurring things happen but i can't remember, and i'll wake up. let me specify that whenever these particularly terrifying events happen in the dream everything seems to change. it's like it's actually happening, and it almost puts me in a trance. when i wake up, i'll feel the pain in my body (as the really scary part always involves getting hurt) and i always try to rush out of my room, but i stumble. it's like my body is in slow motion and i have no control over myself and i become the most helpless version of myself. this always feels less dreamlike, except this is a dream too. and then i wake up. and it's normal, except i'm obviously afraid of my dream. except i don't, this is a dream too until i finally wake up for real. this keeps happening (the whole dream within a dream within a dream stuff) and i can never tell if i'm awake or not until i'm fully in reality, but when i'm awake i can never recall what actually happened in my dreams. sometimes the marks from whatever wound i've gotten actually appear on my body. i'm afraid to fall asleep anymore because each time i do, everything seems to get much worse. i'm sure there are many errors in this so i apologize, it's very hard to describe and i'm tired from this happening so often.