I had a whole lot of WILDs my first time around, there are several catagories I had thought up as miniature "stages". First of all, keep it up, I think a lot of people here know that the power of intending and expecting to have a lucid dream is our best tools to start, practice makes perfect, even if it is intending and expecting.

The mini "stages" start with the daydream starting into a dream. Basically the more you experience the WILD the more you will get used to it, and the more control you gain of yourself and the process.

Eventually you start becoming aware of the dream sooner and sooner where you are lucid while the hypnogogiac(correct me on that word) stage fades to a dream.

Finally you will become familiar with the actual experience of the entire process to the point you intend to experience the next step then the next then the next, but not by thinking it, but by imagining what the next step feels like. Actually the idea of imagining the next step is a shacky idea, from my personal experience I had to limit my own interaction during the WILD so I wouldn't start to analyze what is going on and flat out just go to sleep, or do anything that would start my internal dialogue and eventually get me out of the hypnogogia.

This is based from my personal experience and to me, this is a little bit like splitting hairs, because it is likely that you will prefer a style of experiencing the WILD. Also at the time, I wanted the most control of the Lucid Dream since I was only MILDing at the time, and this is my understanding of "most control". So, in a way I intended to experience those mini "stages" and your stages might be different, who knows, you might have finished your "stages" and you accomplished it, you just need to recreate it by intending a WILD and how you are going to experience it.

Just the fact alone that you accomplished a WILD is a really good start in consistently having lucid dreams. Keep thinking about your dreams, lucid dreams, how it felt in the dream, how it felt in the lucid dream, read about it, talk about it. I think during the time I had the most lucid dreams was during the time I was meeting more of my family who know I lucid dreamed. Every morning they would ask what I dreamt and if I became lucid, and they would always bring up the topic during the day about lucid dreaming, so it wasn't just myself reminding myself about lucid dreaming, my family also reminded me about lucid dreaming.

-J