I learned about lucid dreaming just out of curiosity and searching on the internet. At first I was really enthusiastic about trying a WILD because I didn't want to wait till night for a DILD. So I started relaxing and repeating "I will lucid dream, I will go from waking to lucidity." after some time I realized that all was very dark. Not normal dark but REALLY dark and no light patterns on my eyelids. Then I could really concentrate and sort of pushed or forced myself to sink into my bed and into the dark (still repeating the sentence.) Then my heart started racing and I was trying to keep my focus but I couldn't hold it. I sort of panicked and woke up. Was I close to achieving my state of dreaming? Any comments or advice would be appreciated.

BTW: I just had a lucid dream last night out of the blue. I realized I was dreaming but I got excited and tried to spin but I woke up a few seconds after i stopped spinning.