 So can lucid dreaming cause sleep paralysis? This is an interesting question and I got asked this in a couple of comments on a few videos the other day. The thing you've got to understand is lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis they kind of go hand in hand but that doesn't mean that lucid dreaming causes sleep paralysis. What really happens is that you're more aware of it because you're trying to be. You're trying to wake up your mind and actually you know be aware that you're dreaming while you're dreaming. So of course naturally you're going to start being aware of the fact that you're dreaming even when you're experiencing sleep paralysis so that can be a bit scary but that being said it's literally nothing to worry about. So although you will be more aware of your dreams and your sleep and that will lead to you being more aware of sleep paralysis that doesn't mean you should not do it because the benefits of lucid dreaming far outweigh the kind of negative effects of sleep paralysis which is really just that you're going to feel uncomfortable for a few minutes you might even be scared and even that you can work on like improving that you know I mean it's it can be scary in the moment to experience sleep paralysis because it's new at least for most people it's new and it's something you don't really have a lot of control over because you're stuck there basically that's the whole definition you're literally stuck in the bed you can't move and that can be scary for some people but what you've got to understand is that although it can be scary for some people there's no danger there it can't harm you and lucid dreaming isn't really causing the sleep paralysis it's really just making you more aware of the fact that you're having it you usually will have sleep paralysis every night unless you have some kind of sleep disorder so it's actually a normal thing that we all experience the problem is most of us don't actually experience it with our conscious mind it just sort of happens to them in their sleep when you lucid dream especially if you use a technique like a wild you're going to be right in the middle of that process so you're going to be more aware of it it doesn't cause it just makes you more aware that it's happening so there's really nothing to be worried about