Originally Posted by
Digital.Totem
There are stages of sleep in which we are paralyzed and stages in which we are not, most REM sleep is in a paralytic state, but if a very vivid dream were to occur during non paralytic sleep, could the person physically attempt to act out the dream. I bring this up for two reasons. First of all, there are a few famous legal cases where sleep walking was used as a defense against allegations of a crime. Second, I generally do not enter a paralytic state of sleep due to a sleep disorder, and I was wondering if anyone knows, thinks, or has an opinion on whether or not becoming lucid while in a non paralytic sleep, would allow a person to try to gain control of their physical body while still dreaming. This is like the anti-AP. Using the sleeping brain to control the real body would seem to be the ultimate step in dream control.