WBTB, SPs and MILDs

Hello, I have a few questions.

First of all, I have found out the right time to do a WBTB for me. When I wake up on that time, I can remember dreams. Unfortunately, I am horrible at waking up from an alarm. That means I will just get up, turn off the alarm, and get back to sleep. If I try to stay awake, I can't get back to sleep until that day ends. So I've tried to FILD because I've found out that it doesn't require some time being awake after you wake up in the middle of your sleep. Turns out that FILD doesn't work for me. FILD annoys me a lot - I can't stand moving my fingers ever so slightly like that. So this is my question: What would be the best WBTB technique for me? Please provide me a technique that does NOT involve staying up for a long time.

Secondly, how do you feel sleep paralysis? I haven't had one in my life, and I also know that those aren't necessary for WILDs. However I would just love to know what it feels like. Could you tell me the best way to trigger SP?

Finally, MILDs don't work for me anymore. I used to get lucid in my dreams using MILD, but these days they don't come. I RC a LOT during the day, and take time to think about my surroundings. What would stop me from MILDing?

Thank you a lot.

If you have problems staying up after an alarm long enough to make a lucid attempt, you should get one of those puzzle alarm apps. They make you solve a really hard math problem or something, there's a whole lot of different ones. :D A friend of mine has this weird alarm clock shaped like a dumbbell, and it only turns off the alarm when you do 30 reps.

The best way to trigger SP is really just to lay there awake and unmoving. It's not something that can happen for everyone though, some people just don't get SP until they actually fall asleep.

It's an interesting sensation. I've had a few different things happen in SP (but I have a sleep disorder and it seems to give me SP almost every night, so ymmv) Usually I start feeling tingly on the top of my head, and feel a little faint. Like when you stand up too fast from laying down. Then the tingly feeling spreads downwards until it's pretty much everywhere, and then I feel a heavy pressure on my chest.

Most of the time that's it. I'll just keep laying there like that and I'll either wake up into a dream, or the SP will end and I'll wake up into reality. Rarely I've had some reaallllllly friggin weird sensations though. I once felt my arm grow super long, snake off over the edge of the bed and start spinning around in impossible ways. Trying to wrap your brain around an anatomical impossibility is really unsettling.

If I open my eyes during SP, which I rarely do because it keeps me from going lucid, I see pretty crazy stuff. At first it was grey aliens, back when I was afraid of SP, but once I got used to it I started seeing nicer things. Once there was a bright light and an angel came down through the roof. There are lots of sounds you can hear too, like once I heard some really creepy chewing noises right next to my ear, and lots of howling.

Ashikael, thank you for the reply.

A puzzle alarm clock might be what I needed - although I might just sleep through it. I'll see how it goes.

As for your answer on SP... I get the same 'tingly' feelings even when I lie still for a few minutes, even before bed. However I don't think this is SP at all for me because I can move freely. Instead SP for me is, I think, a ringing in my
ears. I have felt this two times in my life so I cannot exactly describe the feeling, but I know for a fact that it connects me to paralysis and vivid dreams. Do you think the tingling sensations I can always induce before bed is SP? Or what can it be?

Thanks a LOT.