I use to lucid dream often when I was a kid, (obviously I didn't know that's what I was doing at the time). Its weird how you can realize things like that when you get older and look back on life.

When I was about 9 years old I use to have vivid recurring lucid dreams about transformer like beings traveling across the galaxy. I loved it even though it felt so crazy! As I got older I slowly stopped using my imagination and the lucid dreams started to fade into a distant memory. Maybe there is a connection between the imagination and lucid dreaming? Idk. In any case I havent thought about it in a long time until you mentioned it in this post, then it was like BOOM so many memories came rushing back! Thanks for that ;)

But I have never experienced sleep paralysis, doesn't sound great to be honest! lol..