Anyone Project FROM the Dream State? as Oppose to Waking State?

This is a very peculiar phenomenon for me which seems to prove the subtle difference between lucid dream, and astral projection.

Here it is, Sometimes when I'm dreaming, a silver dot will catch my eye and fly right by me, or I will notice the night sky being exceptionally brilliant with stars, or a sunset blazing. If I focus on any of these things by accident, within 2 seconds the light instantly jolts me awake and directly into sleep paralysis, where I am ready to have a waking projection, I guess BACK into the astral world?

What's going on here? Everyone seems to project from the waking state, but I am entering from the dream state... Am I double projecting and re-entering the astral plane at a higher, more aware vibration?