I doubt anyone wants to be aware 24 hours a day. Time passes in a weird way during conscious sleep. Do not picture it as non stop lucid dreams. The very nature of some sleep phases are that thought in the standard sense almost ceases. I like to sleep and would not want day time awareness to last all night. I expect many phases of sleep (even while conscious) to slip by with no internal monologue (thinking). There is value in what you may call oblivion sleep. I do not even like to pay that much attention during conscious sleep most of the time, instead letting the mind be playful and just casually observing with little thought the odd nature of passing images. Maybe it is different with some yogi. Some can be real hard asses on themselves, and take life much too seriously. I don't know if that makes much sense; I think it might.

On the subject of WILD at bedtime, you simply need to accept that the experience will be different. A successful WILD at this stage may not involve any form of Dream Body, and may be nothing more than a feeling of flying while viewing the rippling water of a lake pass by. Attempts at control may have no more effect other than to create a feeling of changing direction or causing the colors to shift. You may find yourself suddenly in a dream body but it is like a scene that you are not really in, and then it lasts only half a minute. That sort of thing. Still an interesting experience, but a different one.