Does this method of lucid dreaming work?

[Darinka]

I've tried this method and it's nothing too dangerous, but potentially terrifying. The thing is, this method won't get you to lucid dream, but will lead you to the mentioned sleep paralysis.

Sleep paralysis is a state in which your body is asleep, while your mind is awake. It doesn't happen too often naturally, but it does happen sometimes and there are no real risks that you'll stay paralyzed, unless you had some problems like that in the past.

What is the problem with this state is the fact you'll never ever have a nice dream in sleep paralysis. Most people who used this method noted that they saw a black man with red eyes, but I think it's mostly because they THOUGHT they'll see him, so their subconsciousness did the rest. When I succeed to do this I opened my eyes and was unable to move and my eyeballs started shaking (I don't know if I was dreaming, but I really felt like that was happening) and I saw my room, but noticed some white dots around which moved in same rhythm as my eyeballs. Then I woke myself up by violently turning around. It took a bit of effort. I think what you'll see is a personal thing, but I never ever heard someone had a nice experience with this.

If you really want to lucid dream, there are real methods to do it (google it up and read anything that involves learning to repeat habits of checking are you dreaming), but it's a long process and you'll be lucid dreaming every night after that and it will ruin your mental and physical health (not crucially, but you'll need some time to go back to normal sleep which fully restores your energy).