Hi

I will try to make this message not too long and stick to my questions.

For quite some time now I've been reading the forums on Dreamviews. I've been able to get LDs all my life. Some months ago I decided to perfect this skill. My dreamrecall has always been EXCELLENT, but LDs occur spontaniously (although usually at least once a week).

I discovered that WILD is like the holy grail of LDing, so I focussed on that.
I'm practicing WILD now and it worked a few times.

But here is the "problem" I run into:
I try to stay conscious, but I partly loose that. I dream then, or at least I see images. I remember to stay conscious (usually because some kind of light seems to pop up in the corner of my "eyesight")and I see the blackness behind my eyes. That's when the sleeping paralysis rollercoaster begins, which I experience fully conscious. During the SP-ride I try to construct an image I can enter, knowing I will go into dream mode. Sometimes I try to will my dream body to get up.
But I cannot get into the dreamstate. I get conscious more and more and just wake up!!
What am I doing wrong?

It only worked three times, to go from the SP-thrill into a dream. All the other times (which are many) I was able to experience SP, but couldn't get beyond that.

Do you recognize this cycle?

Can you help me?