well try meditating and switch to MILD. not sleeping is not a good thing. funny thing is basically there is really not alot of different between MILD and WILD, both get you to the same place. WILD just does it while you are conscious (mind awake body asleep) after you've slept for a good amount of time. MILD just meditates or breathes deeply before sleeping and combines with self-hypnotic suggestions.

To be honest, after years and years of practise, the WILD variety works the best. BUT, you can simply go to bed, wake up at 5am, read a book and then meditate, do self-hypnotic suggestion, relax and then go to sleep. that is a variation of WILD that uses MILD aspects. I guarantee if you do this kind of MILD it is far more effective than doing MILD at night right when you go to bed. I think it is because you are physically active all day, and mind is very active, that at nite inducing obe's or lucid dreams is more difficult than try it after at least a couple of good hours of sleep.

try it out, get the sleep first before you have your adventures...