I randomly get bursts of frequent sleep paralysis (about 7 - 14 days), usually in the morning when I "wake up".

It has recently started happening again though it is abit more scary, I "wake up" in total darkness (this occurs in the morning when my room is actually bright). I am usually "frozen" for what seems forever and it actually really terrifies me. It is most scary because I am in a "void" of total blackness.

The one that happened this morning was especially scary, this has also happened once before. I woke up in SP and in darkness, I realized that I was in SP too. It was wierd because I was not able to move and felt like I was awake but I was still half dreaming. I think at this point I went back into dream world because I was trying really hard to move and I finally did and I left my bed. Though I never saw myself I was under the impression that I was an old man. The scariest part was that my vision was blurred and I could barely see anything and I was stumbling around my house (it sounds not scary but it was because I could barely see anything except blurs).

I know it is easy to astral project and lucid dream under SP but for some reason it never occurs to me. The second I snap out of SP and wake up I always think "Why didn't I try to AP/LD".

Is there any techniques I can use to somehow benefit from this awful SP? Would saying mantras before bed help me remember to try to LD when in SP?