My dreams are trying to kill me.. (a bit long)

Okay it may sound silly but this is how I genuinely feel sometimes. I've been having extreme nightmares (mostly about me dying or getting seriously injured) ever since I was little. I try to shake myself out of it but whenever I try to move, I just feel so much pain. I'm not sure why or if its real or not but it hurts so much. Oddly I always feel real pain in my dreams. Like if someone slaps me in the dream, I can really feel the burn of the slap from my face.

Also there has been numerous times where something terrible would happen in my dream to the point where I'll wake up with my heart beating extremely fast. Sometimes I feel like I'll go into cardiac arrest.

One last thing that freaks me out is that sometimes when I'm sleeping I'll stop breathing. I don't sleep with my face down but to the side so there's air for me to breathe but I can't. I'll suffocate in my sleep and only wake up until I feel like I'm going...

is it normal to think like this or am I just going overboard? Does anyone else go through this?