So last night I successfully got to sleep with a binaural beats and ambient mix going from my ipod. It may have made my recall better, I'm not sure but it was still going when my alarm woke me up about 5 and a half or 6 hours later. This is when I switched the soundtrack to the "lucid mix" which has some ambient noises as well and a voice telling me to do reality checks and that I am dreaming. Again, my recall was very good all night but no lucids sadly.

My question, am I doing something wrong? Last night I successfully entered sleep paralysis 3 or 4 times. I tried focusing on the soundtrack, I tried counting things such as sheep, or my own breaths. When I tried to count my breaths that seemed to increase my heartrate so I stopped. I thought of previous dream scenes, of the want and will to become lucid, and even started picturing myself walking in a storm and "feeling" an umbrella in my hand since the ambient noise that was in my sound track was a storm.

It seemed that I was so close but how do I transition. Most guides I read say that once you are deep in SP, you just kind of transition over if you imagine your dream scene or something in your hand all of a sudden you will be there or you will truly feel the object, signaling you that you are now in a dream where it is possible to materialize say an umbrella. I was in and out of sp at one point for about an hour, switching my position ever 10 to 15 minutes as I've heard to do if one cannot attain the dream state, and every time I wait for sp to re-initialize, I attempt to keep my mind off my physical feelings and focus on something to keep my mind awake but I never transition.

Has anyone else ever experienced this block from sp to dreamstate and what did you do to bypass it or to "jump" into your dream.