Hi people! I'm pretty new here, and what a nice place this is ^-^

I would like to tell a little about myself first, and I've got some few questions, that I would like to ask.

I'm a medical student and illustrator, living in Denmark. About a year ago, I saw something about lucid dreaming, which sounded pretty interesting. I started reading and studying about it, and would really like to try it (who wouldn't?). At that time, I started writing my dream journal, but only made it enough to write two pages, that is like 7 nights with a total of 16 dreams (most of them short, though - mainly beacuse I was writing just when I woke up, even during the nights). For some reason, I slowly forgot about lucid dreaming (never had a lucid dream), and few days ago, I started reading about it again.

My few questions:

1) I've had tons of experiences with sleep paralysis, and have developed different methods to overcome it, and, in sort of way, control it. I know when I'm having sleep paralysis, and can, with a little effort, get out of it - sometimes it is happening a few times in a week.. It's very different. I would like to ask if sleep paralysis could be linked to lucid dreaming in some ways? Can you progress from sleep paralysis to lucid dreaming in a kind of way?

2) Just because I'm a little interested: to the ones who can control their lucid dreams: have you ever tried sleeping and dreaming during a lucid dream? If yes: are you having a lucid dream in that stage too, and how does it feel?

3) Can someone help me getting better at this?


I hope you can and will help me ^-^

- Janissary