It was all a dream.. Maybe

One night, I had a wicked dream, and woke up with sleep paralysis. But, the story is weird and seems linked.

It all started out with me, and a random person that I knew. I don't remember who it was, but I know that I knew the person. We were exploring a really old and huge house, when we found the basement. The basement was just..odd. There was a thin and flimsy wooden dock and lava all around. And for some reason I pushed the person into the lava. After that, I looked around some more and found this big woman. She started chasing me through the house with a knife. When she tried swinging at me, she missed and I tried hitting her with a nearby bar or piece of wood, or something I found. It went right through her and I realized she was a ghost. I ran to a window to escape her and jumped out and onto the ground. When I got to the floor, I started to book it. I jumped through yards and over fences to get away. I came upon a long street and ran down it, then it seemed like the entire town I was in was chasing me. But, they were all ghosts, or they seemed dead. And as I ran, I noticed that it was really difficult to run, as if I was running through water. I kept running and ran off to the side, and started to jump through yards again until I came upon the house I started in. I was found by the ghost woman and she chased me into a room, where she cornered me. After she forced me into the corner, I knocked over a bookshelf and it actually hit her and she went down. I went to check and see if she was dead, but she caught my neck and started to squeeze.

That's where the dream seemed to end, because I woke up, but it's like I could feel her hands around my throat and I couldn't breathe or move for a good while. Then I could all of a sudden. I know about sleep paralysis, but this seemed all too real, like a ghost choked me in my dreams.