Strange Dream Experience last Night

[LordNezazor]

Hello People, to start the story off, I had a nice cup of sweet gale tea last night before going to bed. Sweet Gale is supposed to make you have lucid dreams, I tried this tea several times, but last night it was closer to my bed time. When I become relaxed, I am able to have very clear thoughts. This was the case last night and I had thoughts of my late father who passed away two months ago and had a feeling of love for him, and everyone, and everything in existence as I would sometimes have, so these kinds of thoughts and feelings while trying to get to sleep are quite normal to me.

Anyways, I started to drift off to sleep and this is where these experiences happen. From what I recall, I was in a dream-like state and I lift myself out of bed but it felt as if there was a weight on me- that's the first thing that I remember happening. Next thing I remember is getting up in a dream to hear someone moving around in the house, so I went to investigate to find out that this someone was my dad. In the dream he looked fairly realistic to his physical form and I went to him and kissed him or hugged him or something( the dream was some-what vivid but not the best). I followed him to the living room area and that's when I asked him "your not my dad aren't you?" and then he said "I am the Grinch!" and then he turned into a animal  balloon. It was quite bizarre! haha.

The dream ended after the so called "Grinch" turned into a balloon. However, I was still in between awake and sleep and during this I hard a bunch of strange voices. The voices seemed to be very garbled with a bunch of gibberish and I could not pick up any English words at all. After, that I woke up and that's it.

This is one of the strangest experiences I ever had whilst asleep thus far. Did anyone ever have a similar dream and semi-sleep experience before or know the meaning of it? Thanks for reading my experience story.