Did I not realise I was dreaming? (WILD)

Alright, so I can get into sleep paralysis after 10-20 minutes of laying on my bed trying to fall asleep. My body begins to feel heavy, numbness and I can't move an inch.
Last night when I tried this for the second time, after awhile it became tough to breathe and felt uncomfortable. Why? I thought you could enter LD by doing this? Guess it isn't for me.

Anyway, on to my other story. I woke up in the middle of the night (I think) and asked myself "am I dreaming" then I looked down at my hands, which looked like they shrunk and were distorted but I didn't think anything of it and went back to sleep. If this was a LD, I was in my room, everything looked normal. My reality check is asking myself "am I dreaming" and looking at my hands, because I know hands always look strange in LD. Should I change this? or what should I do to actually do to accomplish a WILD? I feel like I'm close, but I'm doing something wrong.

At the moment, no I don't keep a dream journal but I am beginning one today. I haven't remembered any dreams since I begun researching about Lucid Dreaming.

It seems at once, I had this same problem. It's like dreaming of a lucid dream. If you ask me, it bugs the hell out of me because your so close, and yet so far. As for your wild attempts that get you feeling uncomfortable, my advice would be to just go with it. I too have a hard time breathing in SP and the whole feeling of it is truly unpleasant... at first. But as soon as I simply let this feeling take me away... It actually kind of felt good and made the transition from SP to LD much easier.