Paralysis

My first lucid dream since I have been studying them ... I was on holiday with my dad and we were looking around shops which were shut (it must have been Sunday). He had booked a trip on a speedboat but the place he booked it was also shut so he could not go. I kept going over this wall which was to tall to climb back over so every time I would have to take this route down alleys and through gardens to get back to him. The last time I went round I was nearly there and noticed a figure sat in the corner. I turned around to see an old woman who gave me some kind of warning or threat just before a dog ran out and grabbed hold of my arm! With a jolt the scene changed. I was on a large plain with lots of trees. The trees were falling and being uprooted then floating together to form gigantic spiders maybe a hundred foot high which were walking across the plain. I felt in no threat and was amazed by the scene. I woke up and found I could not move. Straight away I thought 'oh, this is sleep paralysis. I have read about this and do not have to worry'. Then I noticed in the room was a spider which was about the size of a dog. I was scared and started to panic but knew straight away that this was a false awakening so I started waking myself up. I was beginning to wake when it hit me that I was lucid and this is what I had been trying for so I stopped and spun into a different scene. I was in a town at night and no-one was about. I was flying close to the ground and there seemed to be no colour except I was leaving a trail of red and black which was pixelated like a video game. I stopped and stood in the city square doing reality checks with both my watch and my hands. My hands were fuzzy and hard to see but it looked like I had the correct amount of fingers so I looked away - I did not want to think I was not dreaming. I checked my watch and could not read it. I looked away and checked again and found it to be the same unreadable state and convinced myself it was a dream. I looked around at tall buildings, trying to decide what to do next. I was thinking about making them fall down when I noticed three women. I walked up to them and talked to one I recognised and said we would go back to her place. To get to her flat we had to walk up lots of flights of black stairs and I made a joke to her about them. Going inside her flat I saw a human skull on a bookshelf and asked if it was real - she said no. So, we started getting down to business (ahem) and I was thinking 'I better not get too excited because I might wake up' and I noticed strange letters on her body. Other things seemed odd and it was not going right. This is when I lost lucidity ... then we became part of a sort of reality show where people were commenting on our relationship and where we were going wrong. It changed to another time with me preparing her a meal and soon after I woke up.