I quoted your entire post because it raised a lot of questions for me.
I have suffered from ISP since I was in junior high. At first not understanding what it was until recently; like 8 years later. I have never consulted my physician but as soon as I started doing some research it all described what I had; actually at first I stumbled upon a post of it from someone and recognized it as what I experience. Lately I've been getting them more frequently; almost every night to every other and usually multiple times a night. Both while falling asleep and waking up.
I've also been dreaming more… way more. and remembering them. They are personal enough that I wake up crying. More times scary and upsetting than overtly evil. But my ISP is always evil, there is this surreal tingle over my whole body, a hieghtened white noise that coincides and hallucinations in my real surroundings.
I wonder if you, or anyone know's if these go hand in hand?
and now… I can actually see my dreams fade away and turn into my ISP as I'm waking up. For instance, one of my dreams was a friend and I in a truck. She was crying about being pregnant. and as soon as we started to drive away it was as if the truck stopped and reversed and as it did, everything was turning dark and black and faded away and into another scary ISP as soon as the truck stopped. immediately. Is this apart of lucid dreaming?
Sometimes I am aware that I am dreaming, it takes understanding like: oh that person doesn't live here or drive a truck, oh I can't find that person's name in my phone because this is a dream… etc.
Any wisdom or guidance is greatly appreciated. I'm becoming worried to just fall asleep. and waking up is hard; I try and wake up as soon as possible but keep falling back into sleep usually resulting in ISP.
 Originally Posted by hermine_hesse
Unfortunately, the term Sleep Paralysis has a lot of ambiguity in the LD community. There is Isolated Sleep Paralysis, which is a medical condition, and there is sleep paralysis as a term for the bundle of sensations someone feels when entering a WILD.
The first type (ISP) occurs when you become conscious of REM atonia during sleep. You are conscious, although may be in a type of dreamy state and are usually aware of your surroundings. Sometimes the experience is accompanied by an evil presence. Since you said you 'suffer' from sleep paralysis, I assume that this is the type of sleep paralysis you are talking about (please correct me if I'm wrong). Most people are not familiar with ISP, since experiencing it on a regular basis is pretty rare.
When people say that you can use sleep paralysis to enter lucid dreaming, they are talking about the second kind of SP (sensations surrounding WILDs) and not the medical condition. It may be possible to use ISP (the medical condition) to enter LDs. I have heard of this happening, but never have spoken directly to anyone who suffers from the medical condition who has done it. I suffered from the medical for over fifteen years, having episodes as often as once a week, and am a natural lucid dreamer and have been lucid dreaming longer than that. I have never entered from ISP into a lucid dream, or even had them occur on the same night. All of my episodes were accompanied by a shadow demon, so I always wanted to get out of the experience as soon as possible, not prolong it into a LD. Once or twice, I had what felt like astral projection (I left my body and was in a dream state, but it felt different than an LD), but the shadow demon was still present.
Unless the advice your receiving on entering ISP into a lucid dream is from someone who actually experiences the medical condition or is intimately familiar with it, I would take it with a grain of salt.
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