So... I have had the odd spontaneous lucid dream at random points in the past, which is why I'm interested in learning how to make it happen more regularly... however, I've also had major problems with sleep paralysis for some time. For the past five or six years, I have regularly experienced sleep paralysis (probably on average at least once a month) and I really hate it. I know it's just a natural part of the sleeping process but every time it happens I have extremely disturbing auditory hallucinations and an huge sense of paranoia and fear. It often lasts for ages and I feel as though I am constantly struggling in vain to wake up. Then when I do wake up I always have a horrible pounding headache and sense of fatigue that lasts for a long time afterwards.

Anyway, I'm just wondering if anyone has found that waking from a lucid dream increases the chances of waking into sleep paralysis? The reason I ask is because sometimes when I become partially lucid in a dream, I start to feel physical vibrations and a sense of pressure very similar to the feelings I get during sleep paralysis...