I know how to actually get into SP, and it’s pretty easy for me…but what do I do then to get a lucid dream? I’ve looked though the forum, and only found people talking about how to get SP, but not what to do to enter a lucid dream once you’re in SP.
Can anyone help me out here?
I’d like to know, too xD
I’ve had WILD’s, and pop sleep science says I must have had SP before having those LD’s, but I didn’t notice. I suppose it’s just ignoring your body and paying more attention to the hypnogogic imagery, or even imagining a dream body / scene-- and letting that scene take over your senses.
Yeah, the only times I’ve entered a dream through SP (I think) was watching HI until the dream formed around me or separating my dream body from my physical one. I did this by imagining my body was rotating around a vertical axis, until my head ended up where my feet were. Like this it’s easier to see which one is your dream body, so it’s much easier to get up from there by controling it 
Hey thanks for replying! Well, I’ve already tried exiting into my dream body during SP, but what usually happens is I can feel myself get out of bed and walk through my room, but I feel really heavy and only see blackness…but I’ll try the vertical axis thing, maybe that would work better.
I came to pose the same question. I’ve had long sessions of sleep paralysis (3-5 min) for the past three nights in a row, but I’ve never successfully turned it into a lucid dream (in the past either). When I’m hearing the whooshing and feeling the tingling, what do I do? Two nights ago I had HI of a campfire and there were hot sparks rising and crackling and I could hear the fire snapping and cracking so vividly. The imagery wasn’t as intense as the audio, but still, nothing came from it. I usually just wake up by the HI and SP slowly fading away. I can induce SP really easily (merely by laying on my back after a dream) so any help with what to do after would be appreciated!
I do this quite frequently.
First of all are you truly in SP?
*I always only wake up in SP
I feel the insane body buzzing/tingling, I have no visuals just complete blackness.
What I do is I purposely enhance the buzzing/tingling feeling until it is almost overwhelming, “personally it feels awesome”
I then purposely sink my head down (not physically), I don’t worry about any visuals I just sink until I feel my body “submerge” almost. “Also feels like I am being lifted up and out” (different from the levitating feeling, although that one is fun)
Again it feels like my body becomes submerged, at this point the dream materializes, if it doesn’t then I go back to no dream>>sp, and sink deeper or just imagine a location.
The transition from just SP to LD is noticeable, because when in SP and no LD you should feel VERY strange body sensations “almost overwhelming”, once you “submerge” those sensations drown out. If you feel the sensations drown out but don’t see a dream environment you are most likely dreaming. At that point simply imagine something. “Don’t make that anymore complicated than that” because once you are in SP and are also asleep thoughts will manifest quickly.
If that doesn’t work, use the power of suggestion, or try to imagine something again. Like your backyard.
I suggest you keep on experimenting with your SP and see what works best for you
Try reading this book to familiarize yourself with the experience:
Sleep Paralysis: A Guide to Hypnagogic Visions and Visitors of the Night
I agree with this post. I would only add that you are not in SP until you dream. So there are extreme cases where person find itself in SP, sometimes(most common) upon waking up and sometimes before reaching dream state but completely healthy person will not enter SP until dream state, because that’s the only purpose of SP - to paralyze you so you can’t act out your dreams…
If you don’t believe that whenever you think you are in SP try to move, if you can easily move every time you try it that it’s not SP…
Vibrations, buzzing, tingling, visual things and other are not SP, they are only something that happens before falling asleep/SP/entering dream state and they are great indicator that you are on the right track to enter SP, therefore dream.
Once you start to experience those sensations you can do everything that is said before to make a transition. Most of the times I don’t struggle with that, I just let myself to fall asleep and by doing that I’m doing myself a favor, why? Well for the simplest explanation. To dream you need to fall asleep. The thing is to be conscious long enough to experience vibrations, buzzing, tingling, visual things and others because that means that you are only one steep far from a nice and awesome lucid dream…
Good luck! 