So, just like everybody else on this sub-forum, I have been at WILDing for awhile now. I always pair it with a WBTB as suggested by virtually all the big name WILD techniques. My strategy for waking myself up usually consists of walking around in a circle for three minutes until I feel ready and heading back to bed. I feel like I have the strategy of the WILD down, but the only hard part remaining for me is maintaining the awareness that is crucial for a lucid dream. Methods that I have heard include listening to a backround noise, sleeping in slight discomfort, and counting to ten repeatedly in my head. However, with each of these, I can never maintain awareness. Even if im counting, at some point my brain just decides that it doesnt want to anymore and pulls me into a normal dream. I can never tell when this happens, all i know is that when I wake up it didnt work and im frustrated. As far as anchors are concerned, I dont know how hard I should be focusing on it, since ive been told too much attention will prevent you from falling asleep and too little will not induce an LD. So my question is, what strategy do you use to maintain awareness throughout a WILD?

Any comments/feedback is appreciated. :3