Thread: Why do I fail at WILD?

Hello, I am interested in Lucid Dreaming, and I choose WILD as the technique (because I am very forgetful, and I can't get myself to remember to do reality checks (for DILD)), but I fail every time.
I either fall asleep non-lucidly, or not fall asleep at all. The last two times I tried gave me these results:

First: Lying in my bed, relaxed, light patterns appear, but nothing else, but some faint visions of random things (which rather felt like when you are meditating and you suddenly realize you are thinking about something, than actual image), and then finally weak buzzing, weird feeling around my whole body - I felt so heavy it was uncomfortable, and then nothing - I thought to myself I might be already in the dream, so I sat up at my bed, and it was not a dream. I was able to move immediately so I don't think I even entered SP.
-- This was with WBTB

Second: Lying in my bed, light patterns, nothing else, I start to think about visions, like flying out of window, going up the stairs in a high building, and it was actually quite vivid, much more than my normal imagination, but I always realized it's a visualization, and "fell" back to my body, so I couldn't keep them for more than few seconds. After a while of trying, relaxing, trying to break out of my body and enter a dream, I gave up, and again, I was able to move immediately.
-- This was in an afternoon nap.

I also have problems keeping my mouth (or when I am not tired enough, eyes) shut, which quite breaks my relaxation.