(May 3, 2017 at 1:26 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Meh... I think if anything, it makes more sense to say he imagined it than to say he was actually asleep the whole time and the whole thing was just a dream that he thinks actually happened.
Regardless, the sleep paralysis + hallucinations explanation is compatible with the description you provided. In fact, it was the first thing that popped to my mind as I was reading your post. I was looking for anything in the post that would falsify the explanation but found none.
This once happened to me as well, and this is almost identical to what happened to me (the "half-awake, half-asleep" part).
