Lucid Dreaming

I wouldn't be too scared of sleep paralysis... I have had it, and I can say it isn't that bad.

 

i guess ill share my recent lucid dream from about a day ago

all i remember was how i began to question the reality i was in, so i did a reality check; i touched my left wrist with my right hand. if it went through, it was a dream, if you could feel it, it's real.

i felt it (it didnt go through) so that gave me a fake sense of safety thinking that everything around me was real, and being fully aware of myself as well wasn't really a good combo. i remember i was kinda just walking around nothingness but it felt like i was seeing everything at once, like i had the same feeling i would have hiking at yosemite yet everything around me was just nothing. until i guess my random subconsciousness remembered the clock i stared at in elementary school the minutes before school was let out every day, and so it was projected in my dream. another reality check is it to look at a clock in your dream - if the hands are moving clockwise and normally then it's real, but in a dream the clock is too blurry to see; or in my case, it was melting

so thats when i had the sudden realization the reality i was in was actually a dream, and being me the first thing i wanted to do was fly. so i jumped, but instead of flying it felt like gravity needed to prove it was alpha so i fell into a black hole of sorts (not the space kind, literally a hole of darkness) and was just falling for a bit, occasionally seeing lights like how when a camera is exposed to a freeway for a long time and the car lights are really distorted/stretched. last thing i saw were human-looking faces with abnormally large mouths that were wide open, like they were screaming at the top of their lungs but it was scarily quiet. i woke up when i hit what seemed to be solid ground

lucid dreaming is really awesome if you can get good at it, but it can also be really really frightening (which i personally dont mind at all). if you're a sporadic thinker and not afraid of occasionally getting paralyzed while still aware of your surroundings with a demon on top of you taunting you then you should definitely try it

 

Based on what has been said I guess I have been lucid dreaming since almost 2-3 grade ever since I saw this one scary movie that my parents watched. I would always change it to something else if it got there. I always remember if I did do it I treated it like one of those old TV with the knobs on both sides and I would just switch the "channel" until I got to where I wanted. Sometime though it almost keepes me up at night to where I don't feel like I am resting but wake up perfectly and ready for the day. I don't know how much I could have controlled it but I did quite a lot.
I also once went through a phase where I just completely just stopped myself from dreaming (don't know if this counts) but I would just feel like seconds between night and it becoming morning.