Embrace the fear and face it, you're scared of what you cannot see yet somehow feel.

Calm your dreaming heart-rate, deep breaths and believe your the stronger entity. If you begin to dream-scream and freak out, you're not doing it right, good news is you can try again when it happens again (as it likely will occur again).

While in dream, you wake up and realize you're paralyzed, by my own experience...I would re-close my eyes in that state, continue to focus on a deep breath and the sound it makes in the dream. Once this has calmed me down enough I begin to think what I intend to do while at the same time wiggle a toe or two, then a finger and then imagine myself floating out of bed to an upright position.

If I see a creature of any sort I imagine an invisible blade tearing the creature into a bunch of pieces, they'll usually just turn into a radiant-smoke and disperse. Air in the room immediately lightens up and I then calmly wake up into reality again, get up and drink a glass of water and go back to bed.

Dont bother with making noise, it just scares you more, focus on wiggling your fingers and toes

Eventually if you learn to recognize what's happening you can control the entire environment

Being paralyzed while you sleep is a totally normal defense mechanism. You could hurt yourself if your arms and legs are flailing around while you're sleeping. So your mind locks you down almost completely. Some people having active dreams such as running or fighting will twitch a little. Often this doesn't disengage if you don't fully wake.

To the extent that we know the purpose of dreams it's to form subconscious responses and work through problems. Your mind is practicing. That's why if you play basketball all day you'll likely dream you're shooting baskets. This has the same effect of consciously imagining yourself shooting baskets, it will make you slightly more accurate. If you're dreaming about running away from something this usually means you're avoiding a serious problem in your waking life. Turning and fighting the demons in your dream will help you fight the real problem when you're awake. The problem you're avoiding isn't always obviously connected to it's dream manifestation. For example if you're worried about being fired from your job it can manifest as gang niggers coming to beat you up in your dream. If you don't think there is a real problem that you're worried about or avoiding, then you might want to consult a specialist.

Night terrors and/or sleep paralysis are typically driven by stress and particularly disruptions to your sleep cycle.

Cut all caffeine, booze, other stimulants or depressants, get off the electronics an hour before bed, get some exercise, and sleep on a very regular schedule. That'll solve 90% of it. The other 10% is stress, which is a lot easier to handle when you're not hallucinating ghostly-gobblies at 3am.

Edit: All of this is advice from experience. Sleep paralysis is a bear to deal with until you learn the lifestyle changes to head it off.

are you on Wellbutrin (get off that shit), can cause night terrors, or do you have trauma, like sexual abuse or life threatening experiences from when it started, ages 6/7 or before? Family pass you around to the pedos at the Masonic Temple? Generally avoid pills, but you do need to sleep, and if your night terrors are organic, you could try prozasin, sometimes used to block adrenaline while people sleep, which might contribute to night terrors, also sometimes called 'vivid dreams'. Some natural beta blockers https://www.healthline.com/health/natural-beta-blockers

I sometimes have lucid dreams and what causes them for me is something in the real world catches my attention just enough to make me realize im asleep without waking me up. Maybe there is some background noise in your house, or like others said sleep apnea.

I'm also wayyyy more likely to go lucid when I'm sleeping somewhere other than my own bed, it makes my awareness increased when I'm somewhere different.

I found that I can basically predict when they are going to happen to me, and I can therefore prevent them: don't take naps. When I take a nap during the day, I almost always have a sleep paralysis episode that night. Granted, I run on little sleep during the week but make it up on the weekend, so when I end up taking a nap, I sleep really hard, so I think it's just my sleep schedule getting messed up. Probably wouldn't happen if I got 8 hours of sleep every night, but that's not likely to happen...

I got these for most of my life but haven’t had one in a few years. Here’s what I observed from my own.

They happened more when I was more stressed in my daily life. So deal with your problems. Also things like exercise can help relieve the burden of stress. Life is better in general when you get at least a vigorous workout of at least an hour 5 times a week and I can’t recommend this enough. Diet probably matters too since you feel good when you’re eating healthy. This might be enough to get rid of them.

Before they stopped happening, I did reach a point where I could recognize them when they happened and suppress the fear. The experience was more like an annoyed “great, another one of these stupid things.” Way easier to deal with. Now that I think about it, I was trying to do more things that scared me around that time to embrace and tolerate fear as a self mastery exercise so that might be related.

I also did the yelling for someone to wake me up thing. I just told my wife that it would happen sometimes when we first got together so she would expect it and she would just wake me up if she heard me. I’ve tried the wiggle your fingers trick and it works ok I guess.

That’s all I’ve got.