Dzieńdobry, Piotr! Welcome to DreamViews!
First, I would like to correct a misconception: sleep paralysis is not a very important part of LD. In fact this is one of the most popular incorrect rumors that we have to battle here at DreamViews. So what is the truth? When you fall asleep, whenever you fall asleep, after you are already asleep, your body does get paralyzed. This is normal and necessary to protect you from sleep walking and acting out dreams and potentially hurting yourself. However, you become paralyzed after you fall asleep, and you stop being paralyzed when you wake up. Some people have a sleep disorder, where the timing is not right, and they stay paralyzed even after they wake up, but that is not normal, and if you had this issue you would know it. Lucid dreaming does not make this disorder any more likely. With lucid dreaming, just like with any other sleep, you most likely will not be aware that your physical body is paralyzed as it should be, and your dream body will be able to move. While it is possible for people who do not have this sleep disorder to experience sleep paralysis, this will happen at most a few times in a lifetime for most of us, and is not any more likely due to lucid dreaming.
People who claim that sleep paralysis is a part of lucid dreaming, usually confuse the hypnagogic hallucinations with sleep paralysis. Hypnagogia is stuff you experience if you fall asleep while remaining aware, and as you are falling asleep, you may feel a bit of numbness and maybe some vibrations, and see some images or hear something, in the state in between awake and asleep. However, since you will not be paralyzed at that point yet, if it bothers you, you can move, and wake yourself up. However, unless you are afraid of see experiences and expect them to be unpleasant (expectations cause results), Hypnagogia are much more likely to be interesting and pleasant. Personally I greatly enjoy hypnagogic experiences and have never had a scary one. Now, you will likely notice some hypnagogia during wake initiated lucid dreaming (WILD), but not all LDs are WILD, and if you would rather try dream initiated lucid dreaming (DILD) then you will not notice hypnagogia.
In answer to your question whether your dream was lucid, I have a question for you: were you aware that it was a dream while you were experiencing the dream? that is what makes a dream lucid. I did not notice you mentioning that you knew that it was a dream. But if you knew, then yes, and if not, then it was not.
All the best!
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