This happened to me a while ago, like several weeks, but at the time that it happened for some reason I was so frustrated I didn't want to say anything.

It all started when I was having an LD in the morning (a DILD.) I decided I was going to teleport via spinning, but I did not end up where I wanted to be. Instead, I was at what looked the front outside area of my house. There were some people in front of me who were probably my family. There was also what appeared to be someone holding me down, but I could only see their bare shoulder from my perspective. I couldn't move at all. I remember thinking, "this is a lucid dream. Why can't I move?" Then I woke up. I thought this experience was a dream until I woke up and realized that with one eye open I could see my nose in the exact same area of my vision as the "shoulder." I suddenly considered that what I experienced was SP.

So here comes my question: Was that sleep paralysis? And furthermore, is it desirable? I hear about a lot of people who want to achieve this state on purpose, and I know it can lead to LD's, but I don't know how I feel about it. It seems like it would be annoying to experience this all the time and have it become a crazy habit when it never happened to you before you tried lucid dreaming. I hear certain amounts of people who want to get rid of it because it is stressful to them. I know it can't hurt you, but I don't know if it isn't good for you... habitually speaking. It's kind of hard to explain. I don't know if it has any long term effects. On the other hand, if I achieve SP going to bed it may mean I'm getting more relaxed. If that experience of mine was SP, it wasn't a very big one. Nevertheless, it made me question if I should continue to pursue lucidity. I wanted to hear what you dreamers have to say about it, especially those who experience it a lot. I know that fear of this is common, it just seems like SP might be a burden.