[LaMarseillaise]

I have vivid nighttime hallucinations. Sometimes it is bugs or spiders (so many spiders), other times dancing teacups emptying themselves onto my face. I remember a time when my alarm clock was a lion that I had to tame. But a few times it was very much what you describe. In one case, a ghostly looking woman looked me directly in the face from not more than an inch away.

Our minds get kind of funny when we are asleep. They manifest strange and incomprehensible imagery. I wouldn’t make too much of it.

(By the way, I have these much more frequently when I am stressed. Perhaps that was a factor for you?)

[swayvil]

You are "explaining" it. The consensual narrative has sprung a leak and you are striving to patch it.