I made my first two attempts at WILD last night but while there were some interesting experiences I did not become lucid. I am hoping some experienced WILDers can give me tips on the mistakes I'm making.

- I went to bed around 10:30pm, prolly fell asleep by 11:00 and woke up from sleep around 1:00am. Don't know if I was dreaming or not but decided to keep my mind conscious. Was this attempting too early? I tried again at 5:45 with no luck either.

- I kept saying I am dreaming mentally while waiting for sleep to return. I may have temporarily slipped into sleep by 1:45am but when I regained consciousness I couldn't move my right hand, forearm or foot. This was my first experience with what may be paralysis but those parts also felt heavy and ached a little. Both my hands were on my stomach with the elbows on the bed so maybe it was lack of blood reaching the forearm and hand? The left hand was in the same place too but completely unparalysed. So did I experience partial sleep paralysis or was it something else?

- I never became lucid because I would drift into sleep. I tried 2 techniques while awake : repeating "I'm dreaming" in my head mentally or if I had said it over a 100 times I would relax and watch the patterns in from of my closed eyes and hoped something would appear. Neither kept me conscious.

- The reason I am able to give such specific times is that have an LED clock to the right of my bed so I would turn my head to look at it every now and then. Was this too much activity and open eyes for waiting for a WILD?

- While I was waiting, I would get the urge to yawn or swallow. Initially I tried holding the yawns in but they became too strong to suppress. I always just swallowed as quickly as I can. Any recommendation for what to do when these two occur?

- I sleep without a shirt but with a blanket which keeps me warm enough. Is this okay?

Please advise....