Quote Originally Posted by dreambh View Post
I'm quite new in LDing, but as I have been reading and learning about different aspects of it and I have found a lot of info about SP, there is question that keeps coming back to my mind:
Being SP a natural phase in everyone's sleep cycle, why I have never experienced it when, for instance, my alarm clock goes off too early or my wife wakes me up in the middle of the night or I hear a noise outside and had to jump out of bed to check? I know only two people who have experienced it not LDing (and both were scared to death), but why it is something almost only LDers experience?
What do you think?
SP does happen naturally, but only when we dream, so we don't act out our dreams. It start only after you start dreaming and it ends the moment you stop dreaming or you wake up. If you notice being paralysed before falling asleep or after waking up, that means that something went wrong and it kicked in sooner/didn't shut off on time.

Some people have this often, but for majority of population this is a once-twice in a lifetime thing.

You absolutely don't need SP to be able to lucid dream.

Here is a great WILD (sageous) tutorial.
SP explained