A handful of times I've been able to control things while lucid, but more often than not (probably at least once per month) it serves only as a sort of "escape

A handful of times I've been able to control things while lucid, but more often than not (probably at least once per month) it serves only as a sort of "escape mechanism" from the dream. I haven't had a "nightmare" in probably 10 years because they never make any sense to me while I'm dreaming. Like if it's a drastically bad situation I always realize that it can't possibly be real, which switches off the dream as if it were a movie. Then I'm left in a sort of void where I have to work toward waking up -- out of the sleep paralysis. It was at this point that I used to panic, but now I know better, and that eventually I'll be fine and awake. I too seem to have a lot of energy after this process of "escape". But my original comment was more a question of whether or not the research in the article could potentially trigger a lucid dream state, facilitating an on-demand, in-brain VR situation. I don't think I've ever experienced fully conscious eyes-open sleep paralysis.