Scarred, need to know if this is type of fit

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I have had epilepsy for along time, I have the type which happens at night, which are controlled sometimes, luckily when I had one they were light, but a few nights ago I think it was one, but it is nothing like I have had before and I can tell you the truth it has really scared me I could not snap out of it and when I thought I had, I had not the nightmare just continued.
What happened is I could not get to sleep, the next minute I thought I had fallen from my bed, then someone came up to me i thought they were going to kill me, then the dream just went on to other things they were all scary, the worse part of all was someone was holding me down trying to drown me, this happened twice and on both occasions I new that I could not breath I do not know how long these lasted but it felt forever.
In all to was like going through fast speed TV on all these scary nightmares and I never ever want that to happen again, because I think It could kill me, that's how bad it scarred me.
Please can someone tell me what I have experienced and if in fact it was epilepsy.