User blog comment:Holly Bailey/Is This Sleep Paralysis?/@comment-10502460-20180203050247

I don't know if it would technically be sleep paralysis, but I've had plenty of times dreaming lucidly where I'm conscious of lying in bed and unable to wake up. I've never had the type of sleep paralysis people talk about with seeing monsters and stuff, but I am often gripped with an irrational urgency to wake up, both during these times and other very lucid dreams. Funny thing is, I often find that these experiences only last like 30 minutes before I wake up naturally, and no matter how often I tell myself not to get bent out of shape trying to wake up beforehand, I always still seem to fall into the irrational urgency.

But yeah, lucid dreaming in general can be exhausting. As someone who has dreamed just about 100 percent lucidly since puberty, I sometimes wish I could dream non-lucidly once in a while.