You should understand that there are two categories of Anchors, Mental Anchors and Environmental Anchors.
Environmental Anchors as the name suggests work by focusing on something in your environment, this can range from the temperature in the room, sounds and humidity.
Mental Anchors can range from things such as counting, breathing, using a mantra (normally this is done in unison with counting), maths to games in your head for instance a series of paired pictures and words.
To be honest it seems your transition process is fine to me, you don't seem to be focusing on your body or doing anything else that would make me concerned, so far it seems your anchor (the thing that keeps that shred of consciousness) may be too involved, which is making it hard for you to fully immerse yourself in the dream as you're too alert. Try experimenting with a range of mental and environmental anchors, try combining them and see what works best, use a cycle of different ones and analysis how you feel when using them, when you find that right one you should be able to feel yourself falling deeper and deeper into sleep as opposed to merely drowsing off due to the monotony of the whole process.
For me I used to perform a continual count from 1. to infinity, I'm not sure if that's what you're doing but trust me don't do it, if you're using a count remember to limit it, for instance count from 1-10 and back again, this allows your brain to automate the process of your anchor, which is very much needed when you're about to enter a dream because it allows you to have a clear and empty mind. Repetition is always useful as an anchor, most people utilize it with a mantra but funnily enough not with their counting method. I've also combined the counting with breathing (Mental Anchors seem to work more effectively then Environmental ones for me), in that I inhale with each progressive count, this keeps the focus on your head and works for people such as me who often let their mind wander and start becoming too aware of their bodily sensations.
Hold on there though mate you're seriously close to a successful WILD, just keep experimenting a little with your anchors and periods of sleep, if worse comes to worst (which I highly doubt) you can always dabble in some of the other methods of performing a WILD, such as the CAN-WILD, DEILD, FF-WILD, VILD Methods.
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