Yesterday, I tried to WILD for the first time. I tried it first pretty early on in the day, but couldn't get anything. Later that day, I decided to have another crack at it. I laid there for probably 20 minutes and then I started seeing swirling of colors in the back of my eyes (what I'm assuming was hypnagogic imagery). A few minutes later, I felt my right arm moving slightly, but only for a few seconds. For whatever reason, I woke up and was pretty frustrated. When I got up, I decided to make sure that I wasn't in a false awakening by looking in the mirror. I could see myself, so I'm pretty sue it wasn't.



I tried it 2 more times after that and on the 3rd try, my right arm started shaking pretty intensely for a while. Eventually, my left arm started to shake a little as well. This went on for about a minute or two and then I started to think up a landscape for my dream. I then tried to enter my dream by engaging all of my senses (ie for smell I dreamt up a Toaster Strudel, for touch hearing and sight, I dreamt that I was in a house and explored every inch of it). However, I still couldn't fully submerge myself in the dream. I explored the house, ate, and smelt everything for a few minutes and then found myself waking up (again I tested to see if it was a false awakening, it wasn't).


My question is, how can I better my chances of entering my dream and staying there? Also, I'm not entirely sure that I was in SP on the 3rd try (the attempt that I explained in the paragraph above) as I didn't hear anything out of the ordinary or get the feeling of a lead blanket. How can I make sure that I'm in sleep paralysis before I continue w/ the rest of my steps?