Thread: Feeling sleep paralysis pressure in a dream?

Hi everyone. I had a very strange experience this morning and I'm hoping some of you more experienced dreamers can shed some light on it.

I went to bed around midnight and had some vivid dreams followed by a false awakening (very frustrating because I woke up in my bed, wrote down EVERY detail of my previous dream, then woke up for real and couldn't remember half of it ). Then things got a little weird. It was about 5am and I decided to try a WILD - here are the events in order:

1. I focused on my breathing, thinking about nothing in particular - just observing thoughts
2. All of a sudden I was in some kind of game show within my mind where I would immediately have to answer a question with the first thing that came to mind. One example is "Name the person you would most like to punch" - then an image of the person I wanted to punch instantly appeared in my head (sorry I can't remember who it was).
3. I appeared in my backyard sitting on the grass and my two cats were fighting on top of the fence. This is an unusual occurrence so I turned towards the house to try and get my wife's attention. As soon as I turned my head there was an enormous amount of pressure on my head. It felt like it was being crushed but there was no pain. It was so uncomfortable that I panicked and lost the dream and was back in my bed.
Note - none of these experiences were lucid.
4. At this point I realized that the pressure might be sleep paralysis and was perfectly safe so I tried to focus on it. When I focused on the pressure I started hearing what sounded like radio broadcasts for a few seconds then I lost it.

The reason that I'm confused by this experience is that I have never heard of people feeling the effects of sleep paralysis in their dreams. Perhaps it wasn't quite a full blown dream yet?

Sorry for the long post and thank you for your time.