Actually, waking up at the moment a transfer to another location is supposed to happen does not necessarily mean you did not arrive. The only certain thing is that you have no recall of arriving!

Assuming your ident "Punin" is a nonphysical location, it might well be of higher vibration and you might not have been successful in downloading that memory.

The other thought that comes to mind that while you may have believe you were to take these people somewhere, linking hands with them (and thus establishing contact with their consciousness) might have enable them to take you somewhere - which seems likely as they seem to be guiding figures.

There's still the possibility that your idea of where to go and theirs was at odds, and this might have aborted the whole thing.