Can the practice of lucid dreaming increase the chance of experiencing sleep paralysis?

I have never experienced sleep paralysis and I don't want to right now. It just freaks me out and i'm not ready for it yet but I do hope to use it in the future to trigger lucid dreams. However, at the moment, I just want to master DILD. I have been doing all the necessities of keeping a dream journal, reality checks, ADA, etc. Right now, I just want to learn how to DILD and maybe..just maybe, I will try WILD or DEILD someday in my life. I'm just too freaked out to try it now.

Anyways, I was just wondering, if practicing how to DILD increase the chance of a sleep paralysis from happening? Will my awareness become heightened to a point where I will notice when I am experiencing sleep paralysis and wake up to experience scary hallucinations? Right now, I just want to practice lucid dreaming without having to ever experience sleep paralysis because i'm too chicken. :(

Hello Foxy! First of all, you do not need to worry about sleep paralysis. There is a big misconception that SP is required to do WILD. It is not so.

Here is a very comprehensive guide explaining what sleep paralysis is, and why once again you do not need to worry about it. Good luck with your future LD attempts DILD or WILD. :)

Sleep paralysis explained

Hey Foxy!

As a beginner myself, I can totally relate to the though that WILD and hallucinations can be scary. For me at least, it hasn't been at all. The strongest sort of "hallucination" I have had was doing WILD. I was lying on my side and felt myself drift through the air (sideways) going slightly up and down. Not scary at all. Also, the fact that you KNOW what is going on eliminates 95% of feeling scared. Embrace it, it's a funny and truly unique experience every time :)

What NyxCC said. :)
You have as much chances experiencing sleep paralysis when practicing lucid dreaming as you would if you just went to sleep normally, and that means almost nonexistent, and if you don't experience it on regular basis already you don't have to worry about it. :zzz:

Practicing DILD will not increase chance of SP.

SP happens only if you have a disorder and your paralysis kicks in sooner than it should or fails to disengage, after you wake up. If you don't have a disorder, you can experience SP maybe once or twice in a lifetime.

When you WILD, by the time the SP kicks in (when you start to dream), you are already so relaxed and more asleep than awake, so you really have no way of knowing if you in SP or not. Unles you try to move and decide to find out if you in SP. But that's something you don't do when WILDing, since entering a WILD lucid is your priority, not SP.

You can have some sensations or hallucinations when WILDing. But you also may not. But if you planning to go with DILD for now, you have nothing to worry about. If you like, join me in DILD class. Just make a thread with your username and post your question. Or, just post your questions here, in the forums. happy dreams:alien:

Phew, that's good to hear. I have never experienced sleep paralysis so I guess I don't have anything to worry about. :D I did have a vague dream of experiencing it and I posted a thread about it around a month ago..but I think that was due being so immensely paranoid about experiencing it and I was constantly thinking about it that I dreamed about it that night. After that dream, I was too freaked out to try lucid dreaming but if the practice of lucid dreaming doesn't increase the chance of sleep paralysis then i'm all out in mastering it. :D

I have read the "sleep paralysis thread" and it has cleared up many misconceptions, thank you! Like I always thought SP 100% results in scary hallucinations, but I guess not!

I have had over 100 DILDs and never experience, or ever have experienced, SP.

If you just practice DILD, you don't have to deal with SP at all. If you try WILD, you will probably go through SP more often then you accomplish WILD. Since I became interested in LDing, I encounter SP sometimes, but it is pleasant (contrary to my scary childhood experience with SP). I haven't had SP for over half year now, but I don't have many LDs nowadays either.