I actually have had a weird string of dreams (nightmares?) this year that didn't exist beforehand. Although mine might be more of a weird form of sleepwalking?
I've had a number of times over the summer where this happened where I would wake up and somehow think that there was like... some sort of supernatural force or something that was lingering either in my room or outside the window and wanted to do some sort of harm, which would cause me to get up (at like 3 or 4 am) and go into the kitchen and usually just have some water, or orange juice or whatever sounded good to drink at the time, chill for a bit, then go back to bed when I realized I was tripping and it was 4 am and I had work the next day still. Coincidentally one of these aligned with a night where my roommate accidentally knocked their fan off a table while I was chilling in the kitchen so I was able to check and make sure they were okay (they were).
I thankfully haven't had many of those recently, although they were like a bi-weekly occurrence this summer. I just had it happen again night before last though, and this time was unfortunate because I scraped my Achilles tendon on something in my "rush" to get up and away from the bed (once again to the kitchen where I had some milk this time lol) I can't fathom what I actually scraped it on and it wasn't too bad but it was deep enough to bleed a little so I had to dab it with a paper towel for a bit before going back to bed which was annoying...