getting sleep paralysis

[shabrina]

How to lucid dream without getting sleep paralysis? The question is self descriptive, but i don't know how to lucid dream yet, and i'm kinda afraid of encountering one of these moments of sleep paralysis.

 

[ophiuchus]

getting caught in the state between sleep and wakefulness (sleep paralysis) is a relatively rare thing. i wouldnt let it turn you away from lucid dreaming. still however, you may encounter this one day, but know that you will encounter this regardless of whether or not you try lucid dreaming. so the best thing to do imo is just to relax and take in the experience, however difficult it may seem at the time, knowing that nothing is permanent, and it will soon pass.

good luck lucid dreaming!

 

[IJesusChrist]

I have dreamed lucid about a handful of times, never encountered sleep paralysis.

 

[ophiuchus]

i've encountered it only one time and it was many years before i had even heard about lucid dreaming. it only lasted maybe 5-10 seconds before i woke up.

 

[Crimzen]

i've had it a handful of times, always before or after a lucid dream
the first time i had it it was during a weird nightmare where the girl from the ring was crawling up my lying body to come face to face with me, i couldnt move and it was terrifying because my eyes were open and could move around but my body was stuck

other times its just been a somewhat uncomfortable but not overly bad experience
nothing to worry about honestly, once you've felt it one time and know what it is its no longer a problem

 

[ophiuchus]

"always before or after a lucid dream
the first time i had it it was during a weird nightmare"

that doesn't sound like a lucid dream

 

[Crimzen]

'always' was the wrong word hahaha

 

[mmmdrugs]

For some reason i get sleep paralysis when I'm dreaming and i'm laying on my stomach and my pillow sufficates me, so I wake up unable to breathe or move. Scariest shit of life. But yeahh it's pretty rare even if you're lucid dreaming unless you're trying to WILD or something...