Just joined today (obviously) I have been researching lucid dreaming and how to obtain it for a couple of weeks now and couldn't find any site that wasn't related to an extremist religous sect, a bunch of paranormals or to something trying to get you to buy things...

The trouble I have is the period before you enter the actual dream I think this is called the "hypnagogic state" where I feel like I am falling, spinning and I am actually physically paralyzed. I will wake up after jarring one of my legs out of paralysis and become fatigued and disoriented for about a minute.

Has this happened to anyone and is there anything how to avoid the shock you get from that ?

Besides that I would like to say hello the everyone on the forum and I wish myself and all of you good fortunes to you lucid/non-lucid dreaming adventures