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I thought SP always came before REM. If you're trying to WILD into NREM sleep, wouldn't SP be an indication that you're doing a regular WILD? Or is SP just the transition into any type of dream? If that's the case, then how will you know whether you're going into a REM LD or a NREM LD? I heard that when people sleepwalk it's during NREM sleep, because there's no SP so they can move.
SP by definition is not REM. Sleep paralysis is the paralysis of your body outside of REM sleep. Particularly, when you are awake and trying to move and cannot. Sleep walking has nothing to do with REM atonia or its absence (Rem Behavioral Disorder).

Sleep paralysis is just the paralysis of your body outside of REM. If you are WILDing, you may have SP since you are awake and you may use it to WILD and enter a dream. SP isn't really an indicator of anything except that you just so happen to be in SP. Or that you are not in REM.
Unless you're monitoring your brainwaves or trusting a nova-dreamer, you really can't tell if you're in REM or not.