I don't count these, but I want to get the descriptions on paper to clarify my understanding on levels of awareness. Were these dreams somehow level 0.5 or just too much involvement with hallucinations? I have not mentioned these types of dreams prior, but in order to increase awareness and potentially get help on how to get past this I think it is about the right place and time to describe the phenomena. These fragmented dreams and continuous awakenings have severely disturbed my pre-WILD sleep for the past 3 days (since I had my WILD experience) and they have been the source of much frustration. However now I am a bit more aware of the details that are disturbing my WILD preps instead of just assigning blame to lack of sleep. Could me starting to work again remove the focus I have had on dreaming as I feel somewhat pressured by it?
It sounds similar to when I have something pressing on my mind... or if i have to wake up early for something, and I'm afraid to miss it.

It kind of sounds like you were incubating the dream, or influencing the content, by being so concerned with becoming lucid...

However, you may be waking up all the time because you're too stressed out about it? Does this sound correct?

What I became aware of after waking up, when I gave up on entering a more stable version of the dream, was that I was solidly convinced that there were two mes. This was difficult to shake even when I tried WILDing again. I know I am supposed to sleep prior to the attempts, but somehow can't seem to help myself to just try another time. This might be good or bad and I could really use some input on this.
I get that a lot too. If I don't sleep well before the WILD, it's actually just better for me to call off the attempt entirely, because I KNOW I won't get to sleep during the WILD. The thing to remember is, you need to have a certain amount of NREM sleep before it starts to shorten, and REM starts to lengthen (there is a class dedicated to sleep cycles coming up, but I'll explain it briefly here).

We sleep in 90 minute cycles.

Cycle one: 90 minutes of sleep. REM phase probably only lasts about 5 minutes of this cycle (meaning 85 minutes of NREM).

Cycle two: 3 hours of sleep. NREM time decreases and REM starts to increase. Times vary person to person, night to night But an estimate is REM is perhaps 10-20 minutes long now.

Cycle three: 4.5 hours of sleep. REM is probably over 30 minutes now. This is why it is suggested to attempt WILDs between 5-6 hours of sleep. You want longer REM periods

I'm by no means an expert on the subject on if or if not one should attempt a WILD... but based on personal experience, if I have issues with sleeping before, it's not going to happen.

Over all, it sounds like you may be stressing out a little too much on becoming lucid, and it's keeping you awake Which, you might agree with me, is counter-productive

It sounds like you're into practicing WILDs, though, so I'll tell you what I noticed for me.

When I sleep a solid 4.5-5 hours, I get up and I attempt my WILD. I attempt it for an entire hour. If you find you drift off to sleep too quickly to make the hour, try to stay up for a little bit longer. Write out your dream journal entry and maybe do some math or word problems to wake up your logical part of your brain. If you're still worried you'll drift off too easily, set alarms for certain intervals (say like 5-10 minutes for the hour-long duration).

You may find that after focusing on the WILD for the hour, even if it fails, once you go back to sleep for the remainder of the night, you'll have a lucid dream. It happens to me

If you wake up too easily, you could try what I do. I wake up at the 4.5 mark, and I got to the washroom. I go back to sleep for one hour (the point is to interrupt REM, so I can induce SP faster). I use a snooze alarm for the next 60 mins, in case I accidentally fail the WILD and fall asleep without awareness.

Hope that helps