Sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming

It appears to me there is a link between schizotypal personality disorder and sleep paralysis, something I'm very well acquainted with. Have any of you experienced it? Or even managed to willfully induce it? I know a few have mastered it to be able to perform astral projection, but it's far beyond my own abilities.
Another thing, related, how many of you have practiced lucid dreaming?

I have experienced both lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis on a few occasions but not on a regular basis.
I wouldnt know how to go about practising lucid dreaming; nor would i want to. Life is complicated enough.

As a kid I managed to change one of my several recurring nightmares into a lucid dream: instead of drowning I started to breath under water in the dream, and it was victorious. I had also lucid dreams about flying when growing up. In some of them putting on a bird mask always helped me to take off, so I got used to look for one in the dream.
I psyched myself up to lucid dreaming because I needed to get my constant nightmares under control. Flying dreams were probably a response to falling dreams. When I stopped having those I've had no need for lucid dreaming.

I've experienced sleep paralysis only a few times and it was many years ago.

I have willfully induced sleep paralysis dozens of times in order to initiate out-of-body experiences. Lucid dreaming has happened occasionally but it has mainly been out-of-body experiences.

Lucinda wrote:I have experienced both lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis on a few occasions but not on a regular basis.
I wouldnt know how to go about practising lucid dreaming; nor would i want to. Life is complicated enough.

Am I being paranoid or did you italicise that as you think I chose the wrong spelling?

stnkht wrote:

Lucinda wrote:I have experienced both lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis on a few occasions but not on a regular basis.
I wouldnt know how to go about practising lucid dreaming; nor would i want to. Life is complicated enough.

Am I being paranoid or did you italicise that as you think I chose the wrong spelling?

Paranoid.
I was emphasising my irish accent
but it is funny you mentioned it cos I had to change the american format of spelling to my preferred s instead of c. It didnt look right when I typed it...and yet i didnt notice the c instead of s when you did!

I experience lucid dreams quite often.

I think meditation may cause that, also a light sleep. Waking in the middle of the night also makes your sleep light.

But a good sleep is the one that makes you rest, a deep sleep not so full of dreamings. So I dont see that as something very positive.

stnkht wrote:It appears to me there is a link between schizotypal personality disorder and sleep paralysis, something I'm very well acquainted with. Have any of you experienced it? Or even managed to willfully induce it? I know a few have mastered it to be able to perform astral projection, but it's far beyond my own abilities.
Another thing, related, how many of you have practiced lucid dreaming?

I get sleep paralysis a lot!!! It's scary! Sometimes I even get hallucinations like voices whispering in my ears while I can't move or feeling a dark presence in my room.
Never experienced lucid dreaming but I want to learn. I've tried astral projection but I'm too scared, so it wasn't succesful.

ElKahn wrote:Never experienced lucid dreaming but I want to learn. I've tried astral projection but I'm too scared, so it wasn't succesful.

Sleep paralysis is basically 99% of the way there.

Lucinda wrote:

stnkht wrote:

Lucinda wrote:I have experienced both lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis on a few occasions but not on a regular basis.
I wouldnt know how to go about practising lucid dreaming; nor would i want to. Life is complicated enough.

Am I being paranoid or did you italicise that as you think I chose the wrong spelling?

Paranoid.
I was emphasising my irish accent
but it is funny you mentioned it cos I had to change the american format of spelling to my preferred s instead of c. It didnt look right when I typed it...and yet i didnt notice the c instead of s when you did!

I thought so haha. I wouldn't usually ask that but we are on a schizotypal forum, after all. Irish accent huh? I always sort of assume people on here are mostly American.