I have been trying to lucid dream for the past couple weeks now and I have not been successful but once so far for about 20 seconds. Last night I tried to WILD. I used some binaural beats, which definitively helped my concentration for staying aware. I have found that for me most if not all the previous lucid dreams I have had through out my life have been while I was sleeping on my back. Those were all non intentional. I tried to WILD on my back, which was the only position I could remain aware in. I started to feel my body become numb for the first time, so my heart began to race and caused me to back track a bit, but after the next few times I was able to keep myself calm. I continued to see where it would take me. I let my mind wander and tried to not lose focus or get to excited. I would start to see what were almost dreams, or thoughts of random things happening, not necessarily in my room but anywhere. I would say after about 10 - 15 seconds, I would always hear a noise of somekind. It would always bring back to full consciousnesses. I am a musician, and oddly enough I remember most of the sounds each time being an instrument of some kind.

Anyways everytime I would get close to forgetting about my body and the sounds in my room(its in the basement so I always hear the furnace going) these suddens noises in my head would always wake me back up. Its not that they scared me or really made me jump, but I just could not get past them. I was calm enough, but there is no warning for these sounds and they always come out of nowhere. I tried WILDing for about 3 1/2 hours and then just gave up. I was only able to stay in the same sleeping position and stay comfortable that long because my body was mostly numb that whole time. The first time I think I almost was crossing over was when I began to feel my upper body and head becoming somewhat numb and my eyes starting moving and twitching under my eyelids. But this was in the beginning of my attempt and I got too excited, and woke up again. I was not able to do this again for the rest of the night, only the seeing images and then the sudden sound thing. Does anyone have any suggestions for me. Sorry for being a long.