Ah, I get that too with WILD attempts.
One of them, though, turned into a lucid dream for a while, when I dreamed I fell asleep and had a WILD! It was a false WILD, but a real DILD. I knew full well I was dreaming during that "dream within a dream," and I had as much control as I would in my best and longest normal lucids. I did the Tasks of the Month for November.
And then I had a false awakening, in the same dream-place where I'd "fallen asleep" and with the same DC's that were with me when I "fell asleep" (my boyfriend and an internet friend I've met up with several times). I did not realize that I was still dreaming at that point, or had been dreaming before the false WILD, until I woke up. Full circle.