I've been trying for months to lucid dream, I've had a couple accidentals, but none from how I'm trying to do it. And yes, I have taken many breaks. (in fact, I'm just coming off a long break) I want to learn the WILD method so I can LD whenever, and I've gotten to the geometric pattern stage once while trying, and once when my mind wandered, then I realised that I should be paying attention. I saw the geometric hypnogogia, but then it faded away slowly.

My problem is that when I try counting and paying strict attention to the hypnogogia, I'm too alert and I never fall asleep. If I don't pay attention enough, my mind wanders and I just fall into a normal dream. Also, even when I balance it just right, I wont get any visual hypnogogia, but sometimes I will get audio hypnogogia- usually someone I know calling my name. but almost always when that happens, it alerts me and I snap out of it and cant fall asleep. Also, I don't know how the audio is sopposed to help me (if it is.. if not, ignore that sentance). Please help! I need to be able to lucid dream, as I am a writer/director and I want to be able to envision my ideas and come up with new ones.

Summary: I need to know how to get to the hypnogoggia stage without falling asleep or being unable to sleep. Thank you.

(sorry for the long post, I just wanted to clarify)
~Jak