Trouble going from Sleep Paralysis to Lucid Dreams

**Struan** · 04-16-2012 08:43 PM

Hello,

For a while, I've been attempting to do a WILD, and I feel I am almost there, but I can't quite make it.

My typical night is to fall asleep normally between 11:00 -11:30. I then use an alarm to get myself up at about 4:00. I stay up for 45 minutes, reading lucid dreaming material and watching lucid dreaming videos on my mobile. I then use a timer from LucidDreamTricks on YouTube to enter sleep paralysis after about 10 minutes. I will lie on my back there for about 20 - 30 minutes and wait. I don't move at all. My body is feeling heavy and I find it slightly harder to breath, so I know I'm in sleep paralysis.

The problem I have is turning the sleep paralysis into a lucid dream. I have very few hypnagogic images which at most amount to vague pulsating lights, and that's the most I ever get. People say of how they latch onto dream scenes and enter through interacting with these. I never get these.

Is there something I am doing wrong? Is there a way of encouraging the hypnagogic imagery and memory impressions? I would use MILDs, but those work infrequently and ineffectively.

Thanks for reading,

Struan

**mcwillis** · 04-18-2012 12:06 AM

Originally Posted by Struan

so I know I'm in sleep paralysis.

Are you sure? Try twitching a calf or bicep muscle slightly to see if you are in sleep paralysis or not.

If you aren't then just twitching won't ruin the deepness of relaxation you are in. Also this exercise in itself can trigger sleep paralysis in the part of the body you have just twitched.

**dms111** · 04-18-2012 03:32 AM

I also feel you aren't really in SP. You shouldn't have to do anything in order to turn SP into a dream. As soon as SP begins a dream is already forming and you will enter it unless SP breaks before you're fully immersed.

There is more to entering SP than holding still. If you're mind isn't properly relaxed and ready for it no length of stillness will bring it on.