[DarkMuse]

After researching sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming, I've been able to have lucid dreams every other if not every night. As for sleep paralysis, all you have to do to prevent that is avoid sleeping on your back; face a wall or something when you're sleeping so that you don't have to see those shadows. I've avoided sleeping on my back and haven't gone into paralysis once.

My first lucid dream (gateway lucid dream?) was pretty short. I had been trying to lucid dream for 2 weeks or so (using the advice at the bottom of this post) and I was so excited when I became lucid for the first time. I was in this place where huge purple/pink mushrooms were everywhere and the ground had purple grass and shit. I saw this girl with a fine ass leaning on one of the giant mushrooms and started trying to fuck her (the primary reason I wanted to lucid dream was to fuck girls from my school), then I woke up. For some reason any time I become lucid and start thinking of sex, my mind just ends the dream... I hate it but obviously it's trying to get a message across.

If you want to lucid dream a lot like me, perform frequent reality checks throughout the day and ask yourself "am I dreaming?" each time. Also, write down everything you remember about your dream as soon as you wake up (even if it's as little as 1 word). This is cliche advice, but it's what allowed me to start.

Can confirm this does not always help in regards to the sleep paralysis. I've seen shit come through my door/doorway and come crawling on the ground. (I can't read apparently) The best thing is to try and remember that you're sleeping. Once you get really comfortable with lucid dreaming you'll usually be able to react. The best thing I've tried is snarling at whatever it is with your face. Kind of squeeze it like you're gunna sneeze or make a scary face. Do it a couple times and that breaks it very well. Practice makes perfect. It is just a dream. Still scary as shit but Lucid Dreaming is also by far the most fun thing to do while you sleep If the face thing doesn't work, I found a couple places saying to try and move an extremity like your finger, toe or clenching and unclenching your fists. Toe wiggle seems to work best but some say coughing helps too but from what I've experienced, your chest is not gunna move very well. Good luck friend.

Also @meow I think I read somewhere that sex in lucid dreams are common do to the blood flow in ya dick and your brain being like damn, it's time to fuck boi so let's improvise. But that's how I got started lucid dreaming. I was super young like 5 or 6 and I just remember deciding to fuck this chick in leopard print lingerie which is puzzling because do 5-6 year olds even have sex drives? Idfk.