Any ideas on how to proceed from SP into a dream?

[Serkat]

Hello, since I'm back into lucid dreaming since 2 weeks, I'm starting to have sleep paralysis again. For the biggest part, I like SP and I experience it about 5 times a week, sometimes when I become lucid and the dream fades, sometimes upon awakening or when I just consciously enter it from the waking state. In SP I hear a buzzing sound (sounds like it sounds in my head when I yawn), and my body vibrates, so it's very typical. But I don't think I'm getting any other halluscinations. Now my problem is that I really would like to enter some form of dream from this state. As far as I know, I have entered or are clearly about to enter REM-sleep when I'm in conscious SP. But I don't see any halluscinations nor do I seem to have any other halluscinations like sounds. After 10-20 seconds of SP I'm awake again. Is entering a dream or an OOBE from the ongoing SP the hardest part, say, if you'd have encorporated SP into your WILD technique? Are the techniques I could use the same ones that are suggested for the dream-transition in WILD? But I don't see any images, and so I don't seem to fall asleep completely. I just wake up after a while with basically nothing. So do you have any ideas on how to proceed into a dream when I'm in full conscious sleep paralysis? I figured that it should be easier than a complete WILD since my body is already asleep while my mind is awake, so that all that is still missing is a dream scenario or something that puts me into full sleep. Of course I want to experiment, but maybe there are ways and tricks that I don't know yet. I had some ideas but if there are methods that seem to work for most, I'd rather test those than to poke in the dark. What I haven't tried yet is inducing halluscinations in some form, I always concentrate on my inner self and not on the blackness around me, but I could try searching these halluscinatic patterns that people talk about. I'm open to all suggestions I'd really like to have some specific methods at hand for trying out... Should I try some of the classic OOBE approaches? Thanks.

[luciddawg]

i forget where i heard this, probably in a lucid dream book but it says that if after all the vibrations and things all you experience is blackness you might just have your dream eyes closed so try to open those and you might be dreaming. also you could try to just get up out of your body after you feel those vibrations. i used to be skeptical about the oobe before it happened to me so i know it works now. i still dont believe in all the spiritual stuff, you're just dreaming at this point.

[ZappPSR]

When I am in SP and cannot move my waking body, I do the following. I start to mentaly move my dream arms: My real arms stil paralized, but I sense de dream arms. After that I close my eyes (what make the paralisys less intense) and with the eyes closed, I start to get up from the bed, and crawl to my bedroom door. Once I get to the door, I open it and simultaneosly open my eyes, expecting to see the dream world. Most of the times it works and I enter a dream. Some times, when I open my eyes the world is up side down or just a little bended. Then, I'm dragged to the bed and to SP again... Some times I have to try it several times for it to work. But when it works, the dreams are vivid and your are in charge from the begining. Good Luck.

[Serkat]

Well thanks I will try those ideas. Considering I'm basically asleep during SP it should be easily possible to imagine something dreamy like stepping out of my body or opening dream eyes (with some practice). So thanks. I'm still open for all kind of suggestions.