Since I've begun practing LD, I can't fall asleep
I've begun practing LD for over a week now. I've been following the various methods described on this site. My first experience of something LD was during an episode of sleep paralysis and I felt very concious but zooming down a tunnel of some sort. Well I tried to recreate this the next few nights by maintaining conciousness while allowing my body to fall asleep, but it never worked. My mind would create some hypnogenic images and sounds, and drift into incoherencies, but that was as far as it would ever go. I did this twice. And each time once I had given up, I couldn't go to sleep because I would startle awake whenever I would drift asleep or begin to dream. Now it's like that every night whether I want to LD or not. This is very frustrating and pretty scary because I feel like I'll never get a good night's sleep again.
I don't drink caffiene at night, I normally go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 7 (although now my schedule is messed up because I'm not getting full nights of sleep). The only other thing that might be the issue is that I have a cold and am taking nighttime medicine, but it seems like that would just make me fall asleep even quicker and the cold is nearly gone.