Hi there; I'm new to this forum, and have never had a truely lucid dream, but have been trying for some time now... I find it very frustrating, actually.

I keep a dream journal, I (occasionally) practice reality checks, and I've tried to use the WILD technique several times without success, and I've never had a lucid dream.

When I attempt to WILD, I enter sleep paralysis, feel the tingling throughout my body; sometimes I think I see the hypnagogic hallucinations, in the form of swirling lights, and once I thought I heard a slight chirping that might have been hypnagogic as well.

However, no matter how long I lie there, I don't lucid dream... I can imagine stuff, of course, but I never completely lose track of my physical body, or get the full-sensory experience that I'm supposed to in a lucid dream.

I try moving my dream-body without moving my real body, I try imagining a scene in which I'm lying down, and then attempting to stand up. I try imagining myself sinking into the bed... I haven't successfully entered a lucid dream.

Eventually, my muscles start to spasm slightly, twitching, and my breathing requires reallignment, and eventually it breaks the sleep paralysis, and I get up. Just now, as I post this, I've gotten up from a full hour spent in that state without a lucid dream.

I really would like some insight into what I might be doing wrong.

Thanks in advance,

Me.