I don't know about using my abilities as a lucid dreamer to break out of REM Atonia, but I've never experienced a time where I couldn't break out of REM Atonia. Either my mind isn't very good as inhibiting signals from going out of the brain and down the spinal cord, or others experience the inability to move because they are panicking. Actually, it isn't either or, I'm sure it could be a combination of both, but I have always believed the state of terror and panic as being what gives you the least control over yourself (this holds true in waking life too--if you let fear grip and consume you, you are not able to control your actions). Something else curious about when I experience REM Atonia (which, by the way, I usually don't have much trouble finding a way to stay aware through it if I really want to, so I've got plenty of experiences built up now where this is true) is that my eyes are never open. They have never been open a single time, and I never see anything while I'm experiencing it. I sometimes hear things (not as often, more like 30% of the time), only get vibrations about 70% of the time, and the only thing that consistently happens every time is that my body is moving through space significantly in some way. I have had REM Atonia where I have experienced things like having my limbs shake violently while being pulled from their sockets and my teeth feeling like they were being wrenched out and I could taste the blood from doing the wrenching. That particular time was probably the one that got me to think REM Atonia was cool. See, just like in my dreams, I didn't feel any real pain from it. Something was telling me I should be feeling pain, but the pain wasn't painful, it was like experiencing somebody else feel the pain. Same goes for dreams.

Anyway, if you find your abilities as a natural lucid dreamer allow you to break out of a difficult REM Atonia experience then that's great, it would be nice if everyone could. I like the experiences myself, but other than get weird one's like I wrote out, I just fall backwards endlessly. Guess I don't have much to be afraid of compared to the people seeing demons.