Unfortunately, I forgot to post this in the morning, and now I've forgotten most the context (should really restart my dreamjournal) but the main bit remains accurate.

I'd been accidentaly woken up by my parents going to work early, and as often happens I then slipped in to a lucid dream. Kinda like accidental WBTB

I was sitting somewhere indeterminate with schoolfriends, we were playing video games, and I kept trying to make someone in particular appear (she's being annoyingly elusive in real life too, I thought I could at least get some satisfaction out of talking to her in my dream instead).

Suddenly I remembered the lucid task and thought I might as well.

I felt like I was only borderline asleep - so I shouted something like 'more lucidity!' in my head. It worked. Then I drew a deep breath to shout my name aloud, but suddenly I felt my throat shut and constricted, and I was unable to shout.

I'm pretty convinced that I was feeling my real body in sleep paralysis, I'm not sure how to explain it but I really do think that's what it was. It felt impossible to shout. It also woke me up, almost entirely, and I was convinced that if I gathered breath to shout again I would actually shout in real life. So instead I attempted to drift back into the dream, which I managed.

This happened three times. Twice more, I tried to shout, but with a sudden shock felt my throat completely closed again, and I'd wake up a bit.

Any ideas about this? was I simply not asleep deeply enough? I think this task is quite an interesting one for me because I can't remember ever shouting in real life. Ever. I was quite looking forward to doing so in a dream, and seeing how loud a noise I can make

edit oh and I've swum in a dream, it was amazing, I could breathe normally, and the water was warm and gorgeous