How to not drift off before WILD?

Hey guys,
I've been kinda iffy about lucid dreaming the past four years. I've tried occasionally, and I have had a decent amount. I'm trying to get back in seriously with some WILD, but I haven't found a method yet which helps me not fall back to sleep while attempting it. I've tried doing math in my head as I drift off, tried slowly moving my finger, and nothing seems to work. I end up stopping it and slowly drifting off, unable to continue.

Any method that someone can offer me to help me retain my awareness?

The main technique I recommend is to DILD, and at the end of the dream, pay close attention to the feeling if waking up. When trying to wild. Do the opposite of those feelings.

Think of it this way. Imagine you are an archer in a pitch black archery ranger, shooting an arrow at a target. With dream recall you start to see the target, and your aim (DILD) starts to improve. That blackness is the difference between when you fall asleep and when you have dreams. You can have dreams in almost all stages of sleep, but REM are the most vivid, so the easiest targets to see. Later in the night, say after 6 or 7 hours of sleep, you are way closer to the target, making it much easier to hit the target. After you hit the target, you go retrieve your arrow and go again (sorry, only one arrow in this scenario)

Now with WILD, same place, except you aren't shooting the arrow, you are closing your eyes and running as fast as you can at the target with an arrow. Now sometimes you run the wrong way, not even into the darkness, but towards awake. Other times you get lost in the darkness. Same concepts still apply. Later in the night, the closer the target. what about when you retrieve the arrow? Sometimes when you retrieve it and walk back, you are close enough to the target that you can just run back a lot easier and quicker (DEILD). Of course if you have retrieved the arrow enough times, you know the pathway and can just run there with the arrow with your eyes closed easier.

This "sense of direction" inside the archery range is your anchor. It is probably not going to be something that you have heard other people use. I recommend going to bed at night, and when you wake up, try for a Wild, but if you feel your sense of direction is off, just open up your eyes and shoot at the target (go to sleep trying to DILD). They both take good awareness and sleep schedules as well recall, so you will get a lot more done trying for both.

Does this make sense? I know that this makes DILD sound a lot easier, but remember that some people have a really good sense of direction, so it won't be as hard, other have better aim. I recommend learning both. They can be learned simultaneously and help each other.

Thanks for your advice. Last night, I had an alarm wake me up, and I attempted to WILD. Luckily, I did not fall asleep this time and seemed to stay alert for a good while! I felt like I was in a light SP for a while, getting slight numbness and tingly sensations. I eventually began to feel the full vibrations of full SP, but they quickly went away as every time they would come I would get excited out of my brains.

I think now I just need to figure out a way to make myself a bit more relaxed. I was doing the SSILD rotations as my anchor, but it seems that I was focusing too much on them this time.

I'll continue to update with my progress. Thanks guys!

Well, last night I managed to get into sleep paralysis over 11 times in a two hour span after a WBTB. I did a reality check after the buzzing fading away every time, with my eyes closed, and none of them worked. On the last attempt, I held the sp for about four minutes straight and then tried to move my hand up to plug my nose. It was weird, because I felt a second hard move and close it and I could still breath. I tried imagining my bedroom wall but nothing formed. Damn.

Any tips as to how to transition better into a dream from sp?