Thread: Weird sleep paralysis experience. Not sure how it happened.

I tried wild again today. I couldnt fall back to sleep so i changed position and tried again. Suddenly i heard a dog howling and i opened my eyes i saw a dog laying right beside me in my bed. I noticed the dog was crying so i calmed it down and went back to sleep. But then i realized wtf? I dont have a dog!! I opened my eyes again did reality check and it wasnt a dream. Everything was normal no dog anywhere. I couldnt tell what it was. dream? Sleep paralysis? But i moved my hands and calmed the dog down. Hallusination? if it was it was all senses because i felt and heard the dog. Very confusing experience. It must have been a dream but i would say it was most realistic one i have had. As soon as i decided to go back asleep i realized i didnt have a dog and made sure was it real but nothing was there and i did multiple reality checks and wrote dream journal so when i did them it was reality.
Have anything like this happened to you?