Although my night frights* started long before I got my nerve glide exercises from my PT, I am nevertheless convinced there is a link between the exercises and my sleep scareds. The last two days that I did my nerve glides, Partner said I did a snoozin spook later that night! I think I do rattle some things loose off my nerves with the exercises, and have also noticed quite a bit of spontaneous trauma processing that feels more productive (and also qualitatively different) than a ptsd flashback. It is very weird to be doing so much nearly-effortless trauma processing. In the past I've worked so hard and exhausted myself so much in therapy to process a tiny fraction of what's been spontaneously pouring through me this last year.
*this is when Partner opens the door to come to bed and I appear to have some sort of an asleep panic attack. I go "ahhh! ahhh!" and hyperventilate. Partner talks to me like a spooked horse till I mumble something like "yeah I'm ok," and return to unshrieking sleep. I never remember more than an occasional, vague bit of conversation from after I've calmed down.