Can't enjoy my LD. tips?

[aLucidSkater]

Okay I had my 3rd lucid dream today and it's been a month since i started. I have this problem i need to control. -.- Like my 2nd lucid dream, once it started maybe like 30 seconds in i would tell myself not to think about my body and sleep paralysis but that just made me think about it more and i fell into it. Same thing happened today. I was being chased by a bunch of lemurs and i realized wtf lemurs? I said "i can blow the sh*t outta these guys, I'm dreaming!" while looking at my hands then i tried not thinking about sleep paralysis, got sucked into it, and tried to stay calm in sp. I "woke up" into what i thought was the waking world, rolled out of my bed. ugh! i get mad but then i see a kid from school that i know come into my room with an envelope and say something then leave. I knew i was dreaming, i went BACK into sp then woke up. I do not want this to happen to me every time i go lucid as i cannot enjoy it. Also going into sp like 5 times in one night is NOT fun. Any tips on ignoring it and stay focused on the dream or maybe i just need more practice and experience and eventually i won't care about sp?

[fhgshfdg]

Either I'm reading your post wrong or you have the wrong idea about sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis is a function of your body to keep you from carrying out movements from your dreams in waking life. Once you're lucid and in a dream, sleep paralysis doesn't have any effect on you.. aside, maybe, the possibility that you're thinking about it too much and breaking through it, thus waking yourself up in real life. But this wouldn't cause a false awakening. I think what you need to do when you realize you're dreaming is to stop for a second and try to stabilize the dream before carrying on any further. You can do this by either looking at and focusing on the palms of your hands or rubbing them together, two techniques which seems to work well for many people here. Also you might try spinning. You might take a few minutes and read through this guide on "Staying Lucid" from the homepage. Best of luck. Let us know what you try and how it works out for you ; D

[aLucidSkater]

I think you might have read wrong. You know how if you think about your physical body too much in a ld you'd probably wake up? It's the same thing except I go IN to sleep paralysis by thinking about it in a LD. I hear everything you should. Roaring sounds, talking, vibrations, i can't move and i can't talk. I even relax through it and end up back to a lucid dream or a false awakening, but even more vivid like a wild. Sorry If wasn't really clear enough. It's like thinking about something you don't want to think about, but that just makes you think about it more. I need to ignore it, lol.

[fhgshfdg]

Hmmm.. that's a very interesting experience. To the extent of my knowledge, sleep paralysis is a precursor to dreaming and, therefore, dreaming cannot occur unless you're in sleep paralysis. Could it be that your excitement is getting the best of you and you're waking yourself up slightly to the point where you are hearing sounds and experiencing sensations from reality more vividly (worded like this under the assumption that we're constantly experience sensations regardless of being asleep or not). If that's the case, I think it may be something you'll get over with time. The lucid experience will become less new and therefore less overwhelming to you and you'll be able to control your thoughts easier. Everything will have a noticeably more tranquil feel to it. Just tell yourself that you need to keep as calm as possible if you want the dream to last.

[aLucidSkater]

It's not that I'm too excited or that I'm overwhelmed by the LD. If you can enter a lucid dream from sp why wouldn't you be able to enter sp from a LD? Technically, when dream we are constantly in sleep paralysis but it's more like we don't notice it because we are too busy with the dream. So if we were Lucid and we take more attention from the dream into the sp stage, we would trap ourselves there. Then having to wait until a new dream starts and dealing with the visuals and sounds. So what I'm trying to say is that I'm having a hard time not thinking about sleep paralysis in my lucid dreams, which obviously is causing me to go into episodes of sp every frigging' time I'm lucid. thanks for helping or trying

[Baron Samedi]

Ok. Let me explain to you what is happening, and why Fig is confused. You are not "going into SP." You are waking up, or experiencing a False Awakening where it seems like you have SP in the dream. You don't "go into SP" from a dream, because you are already in SP. There is no actual "SP stage". There are brainwave stages. Anyway, to avoid waking up, focus on the dream. Think only about the dream. Look, touch, hear, smell, and taste things in the dream. Eat a flagpole, for instance.

[aLucidSkater]

Idk, but I do not wake up, i wish i would. I guess i just take notice of the sp? Since I'm already in it. I do know that It's not a false awakening with sleep paralysis( is that even possible?) B/c i am VERY aware during this period of time. I did think i was awake after though, which is common? The dream became super realistic and vivid too.

[Baron Samedi]

Idk, but I do not wake up, i wish i would. I guess i just take notice of the sp? Since I'm already in it. I do know that It's not a false awakening with sleep paralysis( is that even possible?) B/c i am VERY aware during this period of time. I did think i was awake after though, which is common? The dream became super realistic and vivid too. Your grammar is confusing. I apologize if English is your second language. If you are asleep, then it's a False Awakening. I have had hundreds of False Awakenings where I would be in SP in the dream. It was terrifying because I had no idea what SP was. I also did not know if I was dreaming. So, you are having False Awakenings, and you are in SP in the dream, correct?

[aLucidSkater]

yes, English isn't my native language. You're correct, i go from a dream to what seems like sleep paralysis. i stay in it for like a minute, then i go back to a dream. I'm confused. so am i just dreaming of the sp then?