Well, I guess I better throw my two cents in here.
Quote Originally Posted by WolfeDreamer531 View Post
These are the steps to my WILD technique:

1. Get at least 5 to 5 1/2 hours (or more) of sleep (when using the Wake-Back-To-Bed technique).

2. Remember your goal (where you want to go, what you want to do, etc).

3. Dismiss any other thoughts and focus only on taking slow, deep breaths.

4. Remain COMPLETELY still, no matter what.

5. Try to steer clear of straying/abstract thoughts when entering SP (random/abstract thoughts means that the logical part of your brain is falling asleep, dont let it!).
(they can also cause you to enter a non-Lucid Dream which would make all this work was for nothing!)

6. Dont fight or resist SP in any way / stay relaxed and calm when it begins to happen.

7. Continue to focus only on your (slow, deep) breathing as vibrations, Hypnagogic Imagery, and auditory hallucinations become more intense from SP.

(you can focus on and/or visualize your goal once you think you've got the breathing part down packed).

8. Continue step 7 until you feel that sudden rush of falling through your bed or through the ceiling (in my case); this should mean that SP is complete, and hence you are ready to dream.

9. If you are not already in a dream scene, then spin around or rub your hands together (or both) in order to conjure up one. Doing this can also stabilize a fading/blurry dream scene.

There you have it, those are pretty much all the steps I take when Im attempting a WILD. And if it doesnt work the first time, remember that it takes time so dont give up! I know it seems like a lot, but once you've been through it many times, you will become better and better at it.
Ive emboldened step 5 for you because it seems to pertain most to your problem. The key, like DreamQueen said above, is to acknowledge these random, abstract thoughts but to not let them take hold of you completely. You have to try not to become too absorbed into them; although this has happened to me many times and is actually what makes us better at WILDing. If or when you fail a WILD, don't fail in vain; make sure that you learn from all of your mistakes whenever you fail an attempt at WILDing so that you'll know what to do in your future attempts at WILDing.

You can read every last piece of information in the world about WILDing but when it comes to actually WILDing, its practice that proves to be the most reliable source of information. Besides, everybody is different. You have to practice WILDing so that you'll become more and more familiar with how it feels when entering SP (Sleep Paralysis, the precursor to entering a dream when done with a WBTB). You're going to have to know what SP is, how it feels, how it affects you, and most importantly, how to react to it in the future.