Quote Originally Posted by phoenelai View Post
Wow, last night was the first time I got out SP due to dream character assitance. This was pretty cool, check out last entry in DJ
Nice phoenelai!! If in fact you had some control. Your waking mind in a dream consciously reacting and communicating to your subconscious. This does not seem that outlandish to me. If this is the case then it may very well be a conscious possibility to rid oneself of sleep paralysis.

I mean really!?!? If this is the case then it should be looked into further.

I can't help but disagree with you erik212. I have heard many things that people say they can or cannot use or do in lucid dreams for multiple purposes and reasons. Why the Big toe? IMHO it is not for some "unknown reason". There is always a reason. The reason is because it has worked for somebody else and that in turn gives the next dreamer confidence that this very same process would work. What I mean by that is, if a lucid dreamer had approached another lucid dreamer and told them that it is your thumb that you move that frees you from SP, then that may very well work. A placebo in one sense. It turns out that this entire method is subjective in nature but carries over into other's psyche to make it a "way." When truly all you need is confidence in any given situation.
If you believe that it will work then our mind makes it so. As it should. Our mind has control over our bodies and if we have confidence in that, then we could do and achieve a lot more things in life and in dreaming.