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Sleep paralysis is an aspect of hypnogogia—it’s referenced several times in the article linked to in the other comment. It’s a type of hypnogogia associated with both immobility and fear-inducing hallucinations, and OP describes both. They just (mis)attribute their immobility to shock, instead of a condition they’d never heard of before.
There is no immobility described
Also, in the article, sleep paralysis is mention as an aspect of hypoglycemia, as you mention, but an aspect along with other aspects like hallucinations, lucid dreaming, body jerks etc. Sleep paralysis can happen during this phase, but is no the reason why the other symptoms can happen. It is part of the condition not the condition