Nighttime seizure activity

Sam, Prior to my temporal lobectomy, I had many nocturnal events--simple and complex partials. I too awoke with the "feeling of panic" you describe. These seizures were accompanied by many automatisms such as repeated swallowing and lip-smacking. I also experienced a secondarily generalized seizure in Fall 2004, which really led to my firm epilepsy diagnosis, even though I knew something was up for about 15 years. The nocturnal event involved my wandering around the bedroom rearranging furniture before my wife found me. My response to her was to ask, "Are you my mother." I also defecated profusely all throughout the room and was covered head to toe in my own fecal matter.

Mine seem similiar to yours. My nocturnal seizures happen when I had just gone to sleep. Although I don't have them as severe now as I did when I was a lot younger, I still have slight seizures where it wakes me up. I then fling myself out of bed to try and get away from it.( obviously you can't and I wake with some great bruises ). I never used to do this and it seems I do it instictively.