Imagine you have no body but are really more like a spirit that can shift it's shape by mere thought?
And remember that you don't really have eyes in your dream anyway so there's no need to force them open. Just know you'll see and you'll see.

When I get in dream paralysis I fight my way out of it. There are more creative ways to do it but I seem stuck on showing my dream 'body' that I'm the one in charge even though I know I'm not actually a body in dream. The ideas mentioned above are some that I have to implement in dream too.