Thread: Is it possible to dream I had sleep paralysis?

So, yesterday I came home from work feeling really tired, and I lied on my couch, wanting to sleep.. So the idea of trying MILD came to mind. I have never had a LD before (as far as I'm concerned), but I had never really tried any hard though..

It took something like 2 minutes or less for me to fall asleep, after I lied on my couch. Then, I found myself in my room, and my brother was sitting in my computer.. I noticed how strange looking my bedroom was, and how my brother didn't look at me when I called his name.. and I remembered that it wasn't possible for him to be in my house at the middle of the week. So, I thought "Wow, what if I am dreaming?" and I tried to stop breathing to see what happened... And I got lucid! Excited as I was, I tried to create stuff and to control my dream, but nothing really good came to mind, so I just tried to create anything. My surroundings entirely changed, and I started to fell out of nowhere, into nowhere. So I woke up really effing excited, and went outside.. I tried reality checking again, and I realized I was still dreaming! (it was a false awakening).. The dream ended, and I found myself lying on the couch again, but I couldn't get up, speak or even open my eyes. I thought to myself "Ok, I'm having sleep paralysis", but I started to feel my body falling a little to the left of the couch, as I was going to fall on the ground, but slowly.. Then, I actually woke up, and I wasn't falling at all..

My question is: what if I dreamed I had sleep paralysis, I mean, I had a dream within a dream within a dream? Is it possible? Thanks!

And oh, this whole "nap" took something like 10 minutes, and each dream lasted for something like 1 or 2 minutes in dream time.. Which means I wasn't in REM stage.. Was I even dreaming, or lucid? On the first dream I felt like I really were lucid!

I think you probably were in SP and you pretty much almost had a WILD, as in it took you a few seconds to become lucid after entering the dream, rather than entering it consciously. It is possible to be in REM immediately when taking a nap during the day. What you had sounds like classic SP. The feeling of falling off the bed/couch is very common going from SP into a dream. And then you just snapped out of it. Everything you went through from the almost immediate lucidity to the FA to the SP sounds exactly like how most of my lucid sessions go. If you had remained still upon waking up, you may have gotten into another LD. When WILDing, I usually go through that sequence of short LD to FA to SP a few times before going into a long LD.

Oh, I think I get it.. I had this really short LD, than FA to SP, but then I really did wake up, maybe due to external noise (there were people in my house) or to excitement.. So, if I didn't wake up from the SP, would I go directly into another dream already lucid?

Very possible, if you just relaxed and let yourself slip into it. Although sometimes you do just wake up.

Yes, it's possible to have sleep paralysis in a dream. I've had it at least 7 or 8 times throughout my lucid dreaming endeavor, and I've even become lucid a few times from it, even though I didn't know I was dreaming before the SP began!

Usually in SP dreams, my eyes are closed but I can still see my entire room, even sometimes from a third-person perspective.

Originally Posted by Puffin

Yes, it's possible to have sleep paralysis in a dream. I've had it at least 7 or 8 times throughout my lucid dreaming endeavor, and I've even become lucid a few times from it, even though I didn't know I was dreaming before the SP began!

Usually in SP dreams, my eyes are closed but I can still see my entire room, even sometimes from a third-person perspective.

So, by saying you've become lucid from SP dreaming, you mean you had another dream after the SP one or what? Sorry..

Originally Posted by Lorenzo

So, by saying you've become lucid from SP dreaming, you mean you had another dream after the SP one or what? Sorry..

Yep, I went directly into a new dream. But it's only when I woke up that I realized I wasn't really in SP, but a former dream.

It's VERY possible to dream you are in SP.
One time in a dream I went to bed in my dream bed (the house, bedroom and bed were completely different than IRL), I instantly fell in SP, and had a WILD inside the dream. When the WILD ended, I was back in the previous dream in SP, but still in the dream bed, then I actually woke up.

Oh, and in addition to my explanation, I used the location and nose-plug RCs to get lucid, then I got this amazing feeling but I couldn't really move in the dream, I only stood there and saw the surroundings awkwardly start to change.. Until everything faded and I found myself falling somewhere I couldn't tell, then I had the FA and SP (or SP dream, since I remember kind of seeing parts of my room with my eyes closed!)

And just another detail I observed.. As soon as I became lucid, I started to hear some "shock" noises in my head, like there was something electric going wrong.. And after the environment changed, I started too mix images from what my eyes were seeing (the room's floor) and from my dreams.. Like my eyes were opening and closing really fast, but I couldn't feel it opening.