Sleep Paralysis or Lucid Dream?

[KillAl]

Last night I had what I thought was sleep paralysis. I was laying on my bed. I couldn't move, and it was dark. There was a shadow of an old man on the wall and a masked man approaching me. I tried to struggle out of my bed, climbing my way to the bedroom door. I could barely walk and my eyes were really droopy, I couldn't keep them open. I barely managed to open the door and in front of me were a couple friends of mine. I glanced around the room. It looked like a gothic-styled mansion. Next thing I knew, I was back in my bed. I did an RC and it worked, but this time, I sunk through my bed and began falling down a vast pit of nothingness. I tried to visualize a new location but nothing happened. I tightly shut my eyes and opened them and was awake in my bed. Also, my body movement was very sluggish, and whenever I walked, my legs would partially sink into the flooring, like quicksand. Was this sleep paralysis, a lucid dream, or both? I had very little control of anything.

[gab]

In SP, you can't move. So when you were crawling to your bedroom door, it was most likely a dream, or hallucination. When you sunk through your bed, I believe that was your entry into a dream/another dream. When you opened your eyes after sinking, you were either in a dream or woken up. Here is something about different types of entry into WILD (the sinking was WILD type of entry) Sensations and types of entry into WILD. Good luck

[Darkmatters]

SP is weird because, if I understand it properly, you can be lying in bed with your eyes wide open looking around and see your actual room, but at the same time you're dreaming and your mind overlays other things into the room that aren't actually there. I experienced what I think was SP twice when I was young, but it's been so long it's hard to remember in much detail. But yeah, to answer your question, from my understanding, when in SP you're dreaming and awake at the same time, so it could have been lucid and SP at once.