Okay, I feel like I was so CLOSE to finally achieving a WILD and if someone can explain what I did wrong, I'll be ever so grateful!

I went to bed around 11:30 and began using that reverse blinking technique. After about 2-5 minutes of lying there doing that, I suddenly felt a profound weariness and just let my eyes close. Instantly, I felt my body begin to increase ever so slightly in body temperature while at the same time I felt a gentle paralysis take hold of my limbs. I could still hear the sounds of the real world like my washing machine in the background and all that, but I definitely felt like I was a bit closer to sleep.

Unfortunately, that's where the excitement stopped. Instead of patterns emerging in the darkness as I held my eyes closed, I saw nothing. There was one curtain of light, perhaps, but it didn't do anything. Eventually, despite my attempts at remaining conscious, I fell asleep. I awoke around 3:30, stayed up for about a half an hour reading about lucid dreaming, and then went back to bed to try WILDing again, but I had even less success that time around.

So how do I progress further in WILD instead of just sitting with my eyes closed in semi-paralysis with no dreamworld appearing at all?

Note: To make matters worse, when I do dream after I've fallen asleep, I get really banal dreams that aren't obviously insane enough to be dreams. And I keep forgetting to do reality checks when I'm asleep, even though I'm trying to get into the habit of doing reality checks in real life.