Getting better, now how to go the final step

Okay, I've done a few WILD attempts and stuff, and I always get to the part where my body is just still. It usually takes a full few minutes of being awake and thinking of things again before I can force my hands up and then they're like numb, so I'm going to assume I'm close to the SP.

In terms of the dreams and such, I was told that some of the things I was seeing were "hypnogogic hallucinations", and they happen after what feels like a while in my attempts.


The easiest way to describe the farthest I've gotten and the feeling, is that I'm laying still, my limbs are all numb and when I breath if feels like lifting a weight on my chest and my limbs are being forcibly kept on the bed, so it's an awkward feelings. Usually my eyelids start to feel a bit tight, so without just moving them suddenly shut, I try to slowly close them and so they usually are either shut or close to shut. Whether my eyes are closed or not, waves of 'darkness' come crashing over my eyes. Almost like when you wear goggles and go under the water of a pool how the water comes in from the sides, it's like that except it starts as just touching the edges of my sight, all the way until the only remaining sight (if my eyes are open) is a slight little tiny pinpoint. It's about this time that I see images that are like lightburn images (like when you close your eyes after looking into light and the image remains), which while someone said isn't how the images are supposed to appear is the only way I've experienced them unless I'm just really kind of explaining them wrong. In my mind I see the images attached with them, but in reality mostly it's just lightburn images, so it's really kinda hard to describe it. Usually, when I see the images they're not moving like in the dream, they're still like a photo or a snapshot image, although sometimes the last one I did one felt like it was moving, but it was very very very slow as though the entire thing was being done in water.


All throughout this I usually can breath very heavily because then it feels like my chest will cave in, so I have to work with smaller breaths (which is ok and I'm fine) and I have a feeling being a bit sick (although it's not just a sick to my stomach, it's kind of like that feeling all over my body), and the last attempt I tried there was a very brief moment when I got what felt like really far into it that it felt like my head and limbs were just starting to fall completely through the bed and I was hearing a ringing in my ears and for some reason felt like... like that feeling when you're watching a horror movie and right before something happens, like that paranoia that any second the unthinkable will happen (which I head would happen, but this feeling kinda came regardless of the fact that I'm not really scared of doing any of this at all).



So, my question is how close was I?
I don't recall a lucid dream, although I do recall at one point thinking about what I should do, and it happened. It wasn't like I did it though, it was almost like when you watch a movie and you think "This guy should just go here and do this" and then he does that exact same thing, so I don't think it was lucidity and if it was then it was just extremely short.


When I get this far again, the few times that I stopped I couldn't move my limbs, but it wasn't because I physically couldn't, it was like they were just not receiving the brain signals that were telling them to move, so it usually takes a few minutes of being fully conscious and moving before they finally move, and then they feel heavy and numb.

So, when I do get this far again, how do you make the final pull into the dream? And someone said try 'rolling out of bed, but not in your physical body' or something like that... but I did that one night just to wake myself up, so I don't think I understood that right.

How do I get into the dream?
Can I get into a dream I've had before, because I really want to relive them?
When you're in the dream, how do you stay in and how long does it usually last?
Can I think of any person and they'll be there and think of what happens or how do you know what's enough control over the dream?