My first experience with sleep paralysis

I woke up after six hours of sleep, stayed awake for another three, and after a workout and a shower went back to bed and layed down on my back. I remember drifting in and out of sleep for a little while and then I remember some weird dream where I was at a bank (this was the first dream I would have). A large woman started to hug me and ask me how I was, she was much bigger than me and she was almost smuthering me to the floor. I was wondering why this was happening when I suddenly came to wakefullness and I remember feeling like there was a large weight pressing me down. The woman in the dream must have been a translation of what my body was really feeling. I remember slightly vibrating as well, my teeth were chattering but they weren't the same intense vibrations I've felt with other non-sleep paralysis related experiences. I remember trying so hard and getting nowhere, but the day I don't try I've gotten closer than I ever have before!

Here's what I don't understand! I didn't get any of the hallucinations most experience with sleep paralysis. I also don't know how to get into a lucid dream. Any help is appreciated!

I'm very excited :D

Well the hallucinations will vary a lot between individuals. After you enter SP, you can try to visualize a dreamscape, and enter it that way. This technique is know as a VILD (Visually Induced LD). Or you can let the dream eventually form itself. Pay attention to the hypnotic imagery, that's what will create the dream setting around you. You have to stay conscious though, otherwise you'll enter the dream non-lucid.