VILD dreaming, am I doing it right?

[benzoe590]

This is kinda long, tl;dr version at the bottom. So... I decided to try and do a VILD last night as I went to sleep. The plan was to wake up one REM before I normally get up, record it, and go back to bed and have another, then record that. So as I was trying to visualize everything using a tutorial I found on here, I kept scaring myself thinking I was going into sleep paralyses. In the world I visualized, I was at school, and after getting everything down. This was maybe ten minutes in, and I was not yet dreaming, I know (also after a few times of scaring myself with an image of some scary clown or something popping into my head). I went into a teachers class and noticed the walls were blank. In real life they aren't, so I told her to put something on them. Boom, clocks, like ten of them, on the wall. I wasn't fully dreaming, but I did not decide to put clocks there. I gave up, and went to bed, then when I woke back up I tried again (But I had to turn of my alarm and set it)... I also gave up, because it was taking too long. At either this point or the time earlier, my dream kept getting interrupted, once with a small "vision" I guess of my mom walking out of a room with what looked like a giant headcrab (From Half life 2). Was I close to going into a dream? Also is VILD likely to cause SP? tl;dr version: I was trying VILD and although not asleep, some things happened or popped into my head without me doing so. Was I close to doing a VILD and is VILD likely to cause Sleep Paralysis, as that's what scares me about it. (But I want Lucid dreams) Thanks in advance! EDIT: I also at one point when I first tried, experienced a slight falling sensation. It wasn't scary, just weird.