Nightmare tonight, first in years? Paranoid?

So I have had 3 repetitive nightmares tonight and now I am afraid to go to sleep. I HAVE had alot of stress recently, but it's nothing new, I've had this same stress for about 3 weeks with GREAT sleeping. But tonight I had 3 repetitive nightmares. These are my first nightmares in YEARS. I keep dreaming that my physcologist put me on meds that make me crazy. Then I dream I'm in my bed and someone (usually my mother) keeps following a shadow over to my closet. I ask who's in there and she says "I don't know" then I get spooked and wake up. I'm SO paranoid right now. I can't sleep, EVERYTHING is freaking me out, and while I know my closet is empty, there's no way in HELL I'm checking it tonight. Please don't make fun of me like "Oh, there's something in our closet, oOo." I'm not a child... if that were the case I wouldn't be so scared. To think that at MY age though... vey uneasy. Even stuffed animals are scaring the hell out of me right now. I want to sleep on my couch but it's occupied.