So I used to think my natural ability to enter sleep paralysis was more of a curse than a blessing until I researched lucid dreaming. I can enter sleep paralysis fine, and almost at will. The thing is that I can never just let myself go. I always try to fight it and wake up because I don't enjoy the feeling of being fully paralyzed. So I have some questions about SP itself.

  1. About how long do you have to be in the sleep paralysis state until you finally reach the lucid dreaming state?
  2. While I'm in SP, is it possible to wake up to external forces? I.E. if someone else makes a loud noise or shakes me. Would that force me out of SP?
  3. Is it true that it's a lot easier to LD through SP (WILD)? I think I would rather use DILD since I don't like SP, but I haven't had any luck with DILD.