The first part sounds like sleep paralysis. I experience this almost every night, but most often in the morning if I wake up and go back to sleep. It's your body falling asleep before your brain does, so basically your body shuts down so as to not act out your dreams, but your brain is still up and your are conscious. I've read it can be associated with hallucinations, but so far I haven't experienced any. I have heard some odd things but the overwhelming feeling of fear is always present. Even though I know what's going on, it's just very freaky not being able to move a muscle even though your brain is fully awake.
I've read a few articles about how to get out of it since preventing it never really worked for me, and believe it or not, scrunching my face up works for me. That or I just try over and over to wiggle my toes or fingers and eventually my body wakes up. Scrunching my face has worked best oddly though.
Check out Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I'm not 100% sure if this is what your describing, but it sounds almost exactly like what I experience just with the addition of hallucinations.
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