Anyone more commonly not realize something was/wasn't a dream?

So I'm like fairly confident that I'm somewhere along the Aphantasia scale (not totally but certainly not fully visual), but in any case, I was wondering about dreaming stuff because I know dreaming is separate from visualizing, and I know many people have very different experiences. For me personally, I know I can dream pretty vividly, but when I'm awake, I can only "remember" that dreaming was vastly different from what it's like to visualize when I'm awake. This is part of the reason I lean towards thinking I have aphantasia.

In any case, as I was looking around here, I saw someone mention something about how if they have a particularly "normal" dream with very realistic sounds and audio etc. that they sometimes find it hard to tell if that had actually happened in a dream or was just something from the past. I relate to that a lot and find myself in this sometimes, too. Just the other day, I had to ask my dormmate whether I actually got up in bed to look outside because I genuinely had no idea whether that was real or not.

So I was wondering if this is similar for anyone else or whether or not this is just a me thing?