My Sleep Paralysis Experiences

Lately I've been having to drive my mom to work , so this has been great Lucid training for. Each and every time I have to take her to work, I come home, lay down.. And hit sleep paralysis after awhile.

It almost seems as if the Sleep Paralysis is waking me up in a way. Like, I'll be pretty unaware of my room and everything, but when it hits, my conscious mind wakes up, while my body is asleep.

This is where I've run into a few strange things. I can't seem to stay in a dream, so whenever I happen into a dream, I try to stabilize it, and end up 'blinking' in my dream, and then only seeing blackness. Yet, I'm still conscious, and I can't move, so I try to get back in. All the while I KNOW that my body is asleep and that I'm 'lucid', but can't seem to stick in a dream.

Sometimes I go in and right back out of a dream, sometimes I see blackness and I'm thinking: How do I get a lucid scape? How do I stay in there?

Has this happened to anyone? Occasionally, I'll try to open my eyes when the blackness kicks in, and my real eyes open just the slightest, but I can't keep them open.