cold sweat

I awoke in a cold sweat, comforted by the realization that I was still at home.

“I swear I broke out in a cold sweat.”

“When I think about it, I still break into cold sweat,” he said, adding that he has struggled with mental illness since his release.

I woke in a cold sweat of reality.

Everything in this forest is drenched in a cold sweat: the stiff pine needles, the skinny twigs, the leafy ferns.