Hi, I would have interpreted your dream similarly. But I'm not sure about the conclusion, to step back from experimenting with OBEs. I'd say, when it happens often to you, and you're plagued by this, the best thing you could is to experiment with it. And I think it is not just a good chance to have an OBE, it is already it's first stage.
I remember only two times I had a sleep paralysis, and it was indeed very odd. I really took all my strength, I worked so very hard to move an arm or a leg, and after my body woke up I had to realize I (bodily) did not work at all, but my body just was peacefully and sound asleep and relaxed during my attempts to move my limbs
. In one of those occasions, I could see clearly, as if I could move my head a little forward and see down my body (which definitely wasn't the case physically), and when I attempted to move my leg it bent in a strange way. I think it was an overlay of what I "really" saw, and what I expected to see. Many OBE'ers tell of how their expections become a sort of outside reality.
I've read of someone who as well couldn't see in OBEs, until he concentrated not so much on the physical way to see something, but to sense it somehow, more like the mind's eye, and that the spot between the eyes and/or the forehead plays a role with this way of "seeing"; attempting to open his eyes caused him mostly to wake up physically.
So, it's a challenge, yes, and can be scary. On the other side, it's an opportunity not many have, and maybe it's not just by random that you have these states of sleep paralysis, but are a natural part of your path.
Spooky