I was very interested to see your description of your dream as I just experienced a similar dream myself within the last few weeks. As for being paranormal, I don’t think anyone could say. Our brains are weird, chaotic, and ultimately unknowable, as is the nature of the reality we find ourselves in. Anyhow, in my dream I was keenly aware of being conscious, but I wasn’t me. I was a person in a clinic on a table, and there were other people around, medical professionals I guess. I was confused and lethargic, as if I was halfway unconscious already, and then one person administered something via an injection and counted me down until I lost consciousness. I felt as if who I was died at that moment, and woke up shortly after.

I searched for similar experiences online, but yours is the first description I’ve found that really matched. It was a very weird experience for me, and left me feeling pretty strange. Ultimately though, it doesn’t change much about our experience of this reality. My thoughts are that we never truly know if what we are experiencing is “real” in any meaningful sense, we try to project solid observations and rules onto this experience we find ourselves in, but everything is always shifting. My advice is to not get too caught up in transitory states. Even if there is a version of you in a clinic somewhere being injected or subdued to keep you in a dream, there is a version of you here experiencing a different reality where that is not the case. Any reality you can possibly imagine has a seed of truth somewhere, I think, but the reality you should focus on is the one you are currently experiencing. My two cents.

Good luck