You often experience sleep paralysis if you are woken during a REM cycle. Your body is paralysed during REM sleep and takes some time to fully wake up if this phase is interrupted. It can also occur just prior to sleep if you are fatigued enough to drift quickly or even directly into REM sleep from waking. This pre sleep paralysis is one technique used for WILD, DEILD and the more controversial astral projection. When you woke up were you still paralysed? If you were then it is likely that you were experiencing sleep paralysis. On the other hand, if paralysis was experienced only in your dream then this was probably not sleep paralysis as there is no known correlation between sleep paralysis and dream paralysis (after all, our most vivid dreams occur during REM cycle when we are certainly paralysed). If as Erii says, you were partly awake then either is possible. I would suggest that you would be the best judge of your own condition. I hope this is some help.
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