This problem might be occurring because you simply didn't finished your DEILD transition. In other words, you were still awake during those moments you couldn't open your eyes.
DEILD is a funny thing, consciously speaking: When it works properly, during the DEILD transition you don't become fully awake and you also don't let go of your last dream; confusion can occur. You may have thought you were fully back to sleep and in your dream, but instead you might have still been slightly awake, with your physical eyes still trying to process sensory input. So, though you thought you were asleep and back in your dream, you really weren't quite there yet; your physical eyes were still working in wake-mode, looking at the backs of your eyelids, feeling quite closed (because they were); opening them, as you discovered, only results in seeing the waking-world rather than the dream world (because you were never asleep). Seeing the dreamscape through one eye and your waking-life bedroom through the other seems a sign that you were almost there, but wakefulness won.
The solution to this, to me, is simple: keep your eyes closed for a little while. Relax, assume your dream will return in full clarity shortly, and then calmly let it do that. Eventually sleep will settle in, and your dream eyes will be open. The key word there is "calmly," because as soon as you become focused on your eyes being closed, or, worse, worried that they won't open, you may be breaking the delicate balance of the DEILD process. Relaxed patience is your most powerful tool in the DEILD process; practice it, and you might learn to wait out those closed eyes.
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