Usually when I get paralyzed or too "intoxicated", for lack of a better term, to properly move or talk (only bits of my intended message get out) in dreams (lucid or otherwise), it's actually unrelated to when I get in a dream after waking up in sleep paralysis and DEILDing, or from falling asleep from WBTB and getting it. Usually it happens randomly and almost never after I get lucid by slipping into a dream from a REM Atonia/Sleep Paralysis state. More often than not I'm some level of "intoxicated" rather than paralyzed. It's as if only a small percentage of the signals I'm sending my dream body actually get through, and so I can still move and make noises, but I can't articulate my speech (or if I can, barely anything gets out), and I can barely move from where I'm at.
I've read enough about "dream drunkeness" and stuff like that that I know this is a somewhat common phenomenon. I'm sure some of the time the cause can be trying to transition into a dream from SP, but in all of my experiences it is definitely unrelated. Although, I have had times where I suddenly got paralyzed at what I would soon find out is the end of the dream, and it turns into something that feels exactly like SP, and then all of a sudden I seamlessly wake up still in SP. Just never the other way around. I think it has to do with my method of transitioning from SP to a dream though. More often than not I imagine a vortex of some kind near my feet or head and I get sucked in and after a few seconds I'm in a dream. I lose all feeling of my body in the process, so all the REM Atonia/SP vibrations business goes away, and I'm kind of just born or rather "appear" or suddenly exist in a new body in the dream.
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