WBTB but no REM? What did I miss?
So this morning I attempted a WILD.
I woke up about 5 hours after going to sleep, used the bathroom and got back to bad.
I laid on my back and tensed and relaxed my body until it was pretty relaxed and I had a soft tingling feeling.
I relaxed deeper and started to count. Slowly the tingling feeling intensified, and I felt my body starting to fall asleep.
I relaxed deeper and kept counting, and then I felt as if my perception of size and shape was distorted.
It felt like I was sort of floating in a vast space(much much bigger than my room) and my body was changing size.
It felt so weird. I hoped it meant I was going to enter a dream soon, so I relaxed as much as I could (swallowing as little as I could manage). And I waited.
After a short time the sensations stopped, and I thought I lost it. I tried to relax into it again, another wave came and I felt like I was slightly spinning, but after a few seconds it also stopped.
I was disappointed and rolled over to tge side, trying (for quite a long time) to just go to sleep normally.
What happened? At no point did I see any hypnogogic imagery, and I felt like I wasn't really getting anywhere.
What did I miss?
*Note:* I've tried to WILD a few times right when I went to bed as "practice", and I got the same sensations, which probably means they were NREM sensations.
But why did I get them without any HI when I tried it this morning, after a couple hours of sleep? Why didn't I get into REM sleep?