Hey Everyone!

I've been trying to do some WILD's for the last few days, and even doing a couple of WBTB's and going back to sleep keeping in mind that I'm about to go to sleep and will stay lucid and use mnemonics.

Last night I laid down around 12 AM after listening to a 30 minute youtube video with subliminal messaging telling me I will stay lucid etc. After that I listened to a 1.5 hour long youtube video that is meant for listening to while falling asleep, and once you're asleep it continues playing and then after about an hour of listening it starts with the messaging.

I listened to it and tried to keep very still, and moved only a few times just to stay comfortable. I had headphones on and became very drowsy. I was more of put into a trance after a while of listening, and kept my thoughts on falling asleep lucid. Slowly but surely I had VERY short "dreams" here and there, but they only lasted about 30 seconds to 2 minutes. This only happened once or twice.

All of my experiences trying to do WILD's I've never had any sort of HI or heard anything, or had any enhanced visualizations. It just feels like going to bed as usual, but keeping still.

After a while, the 1.5 hours of listening was complete, and the video stopped... but I was still awake, I didn't fall asleep. I then felt very refreshed and awake and found it very hard to get to sleep. After a while I just got up and went to the bathroom and got some water then came back. I fell asleep in about 15-20 minutes.

I had a dream which I journaled here on the site. Nothing lucid, and it didn't feel like anything special. What am I doing wrong? It seems like WILD'ing is such a hard to explain phenomenon that nobody has every REALLY explained. I've read several "How to WILD"'s threads on here... and I do everything, but it seems I just can't do it, I don't get any vibrations, anything unusual, it just feels like I'm keeping still and relaxed, but that's it.

Any help?

It's greatly appreciated, thanks!