If you have problems staying up after an alarm long enough to make a lucid attempt, you should get one of those puzzle alarm apps. They make you solve a really hard math problem or something, there's a whole lot of different ones. A friend of mine has this weird alarm clock shaped like a dumbbell, and it only turns off the alarm when you do 30 reps.
The best way to trigger SP is really just to lay there awake and unmoving. It's not something that can happen for everyone though, some people just don't get SP until they actually fall asleep.
It's an interesting sensation. I've had a few different things happen in SP (but I have a sleep disorder and it seems to give me SP almost every night, so ymmv) Usually I start feeling tingly on the top of my head, and feel a little faint. Like when you stand up too fast from laying down. Then the tingly feeling spreads downwards until it's pretty much everywhere, and then I feel a heavy pressure on my chest.
Most of the time that's it. I'll just keep laying there like that and I'll either wake up into a dream, or the SP will end and I'll wake up into reality. Rarely I've had some reaallllllly friggin weird sensations though. I once felt my arm grow super long, snake off over the edge of the bed and start spinning around in impossible ways. Trying to wrap your brain around an anatomical impossibility is really unsettling.
If I open my eyes during SP, which I rarely do because it keeps me from going lucid, I see pretty crazy stuff. At first it was grey aliens, back when I was afraid of SP, but once I got used to it I started seeing nicer things. Once there was a bright light and an angel came down through the roof. There are lots of sounds you can hear too, like once I heard some really creepy chewing noises right next to my ear, and lots of howling.
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