Thread: Something I Heard About Lucid Dreaming

Lucid Dreaming can cause it. As you may end up waking up from the dream in SP.

It has happened to me but then I dream exit induced lucid dream and had another

You do not have sleep paralysis every night. Every night during REM periods your body should paralyze you to prevent you from acting out your dreams, and this is called REM atonia. You are not aware that you are in REM atonia, because you are asleep and usually dreaming by this point.

Sleep paralysis is when this atonia or paralysis persists when you awaken or when it kicks in too early before you've really fallen asleep. If you are not already experiencing this in your life regularly, you should not expect your frequency of sleep paralysis to increase significantly unless you are trying to WILD and having it happen over and over again, or the few chances where you wake up from a dream lucid and find yourself in SP. These moments are, as hellohihello stated, ideal for a DEILD. People have SP, normally, very rarely during their lives or, possibly, during periods of intense stress. I have been on here for just over ten months now and not read of a single person experiencing SP more frequently than they used to, unless they were WILDing and trying to. And even so 90% of the descriptions include nothing but hypnagogic hallucinations- no paralysis, sensed presences, or incubi.

Also, once you read more about sleep paralysis you will realize that it's nothing very frightening so long as you inform yourself of what hallucinations are, what's happening to your body, what you should expect, and how to reduce your own fear- which may prevent it from being scary at all. Then you'll realize that really if you DO experience SP, it can be used as a helpful tool to enter a lucid dream.

So, hope that helps. Unless you've already got sleep paralysis, you should not even consider this when considering learning to lucid dream. It's not really a feasible worry, I'd be more concerned about losing sleep during WBTBs and being tired. If you ARE already experiencing isolated sleep paralysis, well then you've just discovered a way to use it to your benefit!

Originally Posted by Shift

You do not have sleep paralysis every night. Every night during REM periods your body should paralyze you to prevent you from acting out your dreams, and this is called REM atonia. You are not aware that you are in REM atonia, because you are asleep and usually dreaming by this point.

Sleep paralysis is when this atonia or paralysis persists when you awaken or when it kicks in too early before you've really fallen asleep. If you are not already experiencing this in your life regularly, you should not expect your frequency of sleep paralysis to increase significantly unless you are trying to WILD and having it happen over and over again, or the few chances where you wake up from a dream lucid and find yourself in SP. These moments are, as hellohihello stated, ideal for a DEILD. People have SP, normally, very rarely during their lives or, possibly, during periods of intense stress. I have been on here for just over ten months now and not read of a single person experiencing SP more frequently than they used to, unless they were WILDing and trying to. And even so 90% of the descriptions include nothing but hypnagogic hallucinations- no paralysis, sensed presences, or incubi.

Also, once you read more about sleep paralysis you will realize that it's nothing very frightening so long as you inform yourself of what hallucinations are, what's happening to your body, what you should expect, and how to reduce your own fear- which may prevent it from being scary at all. Then you'll realize that really if you DO experience SP, it can be used as a helpful tool to enter a lucid dream.

So, hope that helps. Unless you've already got sleep paralysis, you should not even consider this when considering learning to lucid dream. It's not really a feasible worry, I'd be more concerned about losing sleep during WBTBs and being tired. If you ARE already experiencing isolated sleep paralysis, well then you've just discovered a way to use it to your benefit!

My, bad wrong term =D

Originally Posted by Shift

You do not have sleep paralysis every night. Every night during REM periods your body should paralyze you to prevent you from acting out your dreams, and this is called REM atonia. You are not aware that you are in REM atonia, because you are asleep and usually dreaming by this point.
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oh, that explains something that happened to me a couple of times.