Hello everyone!

Recently I decided to get back into LD. In the past I had decent success with LD but limited success with dream control. One of the reasons I quit was due to the frequent onset of sleep paralysis associated with my efforts.

I decided to give it another shot after reading some guides on meditation and OBEs. One of the things I read sounded very familiar to sensations I had in sleep paralysis so I thought maybe I would give it a go and embrace the sleep paralysis instead of fearing it. Just so you understand I know that with melatonin 5mg and sleeping on my back I am 100% likely to experience sleep paralysis and/or a LD.

So my very first night attempting this I had some vivid dreams but nothing I could remember. Me and my girlfriend decided to take a nap the next afternoon and that is when it all went down. I fell asleep on my back and before long I knew I was in sleep paralysis. I could not move anything hardly but this time I wasn't scared and felt no dark energy. When I read about meditating to OBE the author mentioned feeling electrical or tingling throughout your body and I focused on this and before long felt my entire body tingling like never before. I really can't describe this sensation it was not a "euphoric" feeling nor a negative one either.

So I decided I was going to attempt to leave my body in this state. To do this I decided I would attempt to roll out of my physical body. It took me a great deal of effort as my body was basically paralyzed but finally I felt myself roll over off the bed and onto the floor.

This is the last thing I remember. I know after this I had some very vivid dreams but none were Lucid. I also had a few more incidences of the same paralysis but the other times seemed a bit darker and I was very confused in some and trying to get my girlfriends attention who was sleeping next to me.

So I would like to know what happened with rolling out of my body? Was this a brief OBE? Did I simply wake myself up from the paralysis or could I have actually stood up and entered a lucid dream from this stage?

I feel like the sleep paralysis might be a doorway into extremely easy lucid dreams if I can master it but I'm not sure if there is any point.

Am I wasting my time or should I continue with inducing sleep paralysis?

It's very easy to avoid by sleeping on my side (which is my normal position anyway).

I really can't describe just how powerful 5mg is on the vivid nature of my dreams. In the past I took much smaller dosages but the ones I bought were 5mg and I find they really help my quality of sleep although give me a hell of a hangover for about an hour in the morning.