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| - The girl had just taken ectasy, for one thing, and on top of all of Nina's issues and worries, drugs are never a good recipe for seeing things clearly. Also, after Nina "came to" and ran out of the club, it probably wouldn't be logical that Lily would be able to find her so quickly. When Nina returns home, Erica never addresses Lily and says nothing like "get the hell out of my house".
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| - The girl had just taken ectasy, for one thing, and on top of all of Nina's issues and worries, drugs are never a good recipe for seeing things clearly. Also, after Nina "came to" and ran out of the club, it probably wouldn't be logical that Lily would be able to find her so quickly. When Nina returns home, Erica never addresses Lily and says nothing like "get the hell out of my house". There's a nifty camera trick with a mirror that seems to merge the image of Nina and Lily together, shortly after Nina's mother confronts her after they enter the apartment. This is the hint to us that they are the same.
* This appears to be the most straightforward interpretation of the scene, considering that Nina's hallucinations are moving into full swing by this part of the film. Also, when Lily denies that she stayed the night, Nina seems more embarrassed at having had a sexual dream about Lily than confused and angry at Lily for lying.
* Considering how sexually repressed Nina is, how her first masturbation scene went, and how Lily embodies the darker, edgier, and seductive Black Swan that Nina so desperately wants to become, it's extremely likely that Lily was telling the truth and Nina hallucinated the sex scene. Particularly since Nina's mother never acknowledges that another person is in the apartment.
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