User blog comment:SnakeTongue237/A Recent Experience With Sleep Paralysis/@comment-29507836-20161115003538

I, for one, have never actually had experienced sleep paralysis before, although I do remember reading up on it once about how it connects to lucid dreaming. It essentially says that a failed attempt at lucid dreaming might lead to an encounter with sleep paralysis. However, not only have I never had a lucid dream or sleep paralysis, I also haven't had nightmares that I can recall of, not one.

If you want to prevent sleep paralysis, make sure that your "sleep hygiene" is proper. I remember reading up on how to prevent it once when one of my relatives experienced it, and apparently it can be caused by lack of proper sleep, alchohol, nicotine, and drugs consumed at night. After 2 P.M., you should also avoid drinking caffeine. I'll try to find the link where I got the stock knowledge from.

If I may ask, how scary was it to experience sleep paralysis? Was it the scariest thing you've ever experienced?