Just wanted to acknowledge to you that I'm glad I saw this guide. I've read a lot of guides on WILDing and how one tries to become passive while trying to retain some consciousness, but the metaphor you gave about the object in your hand helped A LOT this morning at 3-4 AM.

I woke up to do a WBTB+MILD with a visualization at first, and thought that since I wouldn't have enough time for a WILD, I might as well stick to the MILD. But after some tossing and turning, and counting numbers in my mind while saying a few mantras, I forget about the awareness and came back to it passively. Finally turning around for a while, I finally get the images in my head, really quickly, and I feel that "pull" sensation I get with WILDs.

The vibrations stopped, and I think I failed, but I ended up having a few False Awakenings, but I became lucid in all of them except for the last one.

Again, thanks for the useful metaphor Spyguy! Awesome stuff.