So I am starting to try some of the various techniques to induce lucid dreaming, starting with MILD since it is the easiest and I am a beginner. Anway, the last few nights when I have been at the step of repeating "I will wake after every dream period and I will remember my dreams," I have experienced what seems to be the vibrational state or sleep paralysis part of WILD. It becomes increasingly difficult to repeat that statement as I begin to fall asleep, and I have to really concentrate to say it correctly. After that my whole body from the neck down goes numb and tingly, a very strange sensation.....

Anyway, my question is, am I trying to do that step of MILD for too long? Are you suppose to continue repeating the phrase until you fall asleep.... or should I say it just a few times and then fall asleep naturally?

Forgive a stupid question..... it just seems to me that if I concentrate on saying the phrase over and over, so long that I move into stages where my body is starting to fall asleep while my mind stays awake, that I am doing WILD instead of MILD......