Thread: I stayed up later than usual.

Last night I stayed up until 3 am, when I finally went to sleep I had both my arms above my head and sleep paralysis came super strong. I'm confused a little about SP, right when it happened I was in a little daydream (?) with huge winds that I felt like I was flying around the setting, I can't tell if it was a LD. I kept telling myself I was lucid and then the SP wore off, I performed a RC but wasn't lucid.. Thinking it's because I opened my eyes after the SP...

You nearly did a WILD

Hi there, first you should read through this link, http://www.dreamviews.com/wake-initi...explained.html

It is very unlikely that you can get a normal LD when first falling asleep. You can however experience all sort of hypnogogic hallucinations. They are interesting and can be a fun hobby by themselves. In a way they are sort of lucid dreams, just in a minor sense. Perhaps like humming could be called music, but lacks the substance of a real song.

Thats interesting because almost 100% of the times I stay up later and then go to bed I get an LD. I think it has something to do with the sudden change of your sleep cycle in general. However I do think a Lucid Dream is possible in the first dream of the night, I've done it before, and I was even aware of the time so I knew it was the first dream of the night. I do partly agree with Sivason though because unless you really are determined to become Lucid in that first dream, odds are it wont happen. Its only happened to me once because I really wanted to become lucid that night.
As for SP, if you were already in a dream it wouldn't of mattered because you would've been opening your dream eyes. So it seems like you were still awake.