Thread: Can't enjoy my LD. tips?

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.

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

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.

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

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?

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?