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No, it was even worse than that. It didn't just happen in someone's head, it never happened at all.
As much as you might hate Mars's conceit, you have to admit it had real-world connotations - when Sergeant Coma woke up, he was changed by the experience. The events of Donnie Darko had no impact on anything or anyone.
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But... there were real world consequences in that movie. Everything he did in the days he ended up erasing caused sometimes subtle, and sometimes not so subtle (Swayze's character killing himself) affects to the people in his life. That, and he also sacrificed his own life to repair the damage done to the universe. Donnie Darko is not a perfect movie, by any means. In fact, the original release of the movie makes very little sense, and the parts that do kind of make sense are a lot of bad pseudo-science. The directors cut explains a ton more about what is happening, but it also just about ruined the pacing of the movie, so I still prefer the original cut.