Thread: Need Help With WILD / My Experience

Hey guys, so I haven't been trying to lucid dream for quite a while now. Last time I attempted any kind of lucid dreaming technique must have been at least half a year ago. I haven't been doing reality checks or writing in my dream journal. This was because of my complete lack of success.
However, yesterday evening I got the feeling that I should give the WILD a try. I set an alarm to 5 hours after I fell asleep. I woke up, turned it off and tried to WILD. I lay down, not moving, focusing on remembering that Im in my bed and that I want to have a lucid dream. I stayed in that state and after a while, got the sensation of my body going numb. However, I didn't see any vivid hypnagogia or hear sounds at all. I stayed like that for another 10 minutes, but nothing was happening, and I gave up. I turned over to my other side and was just about to fall asleep when I thought that I should try again. So I did, but this time I remembered about sleep paralysis, and not wanting to see anything creepy if it happened, I came up with a mantra. I was laying there and repeating to myself "All Might will take me to my dream". (All Might is a superhero from the anime My Hero Academia). I basically repeated what I did the first time, just this time I was constantly saying the mantra in my head. Once again, after about 25/30 minutes nothing happened. I couldn't be bothered trying again so I decided to just go to sleep. I turned over, and was just about to fall asleep when the thought came into my head. "All Might will take me to my dream. BOOM!!! I felt like I tripped and fell on my stomach, though I wasn't standing. I lay on the ground with my arms outstretched forward, though I knew that in reality I was in bed. I looked up and there he was. Standing before me in all his magnificence was All Might himself. To me it looked like we were in a very long and dark tunnel. He told me to follow him and turned around. I felt everything start to shake as if I was teleporting and a moment later we were standing at the entrance to the the tunnel. I could see the infamous hero school, UA. There were trees, the sky was blue, the colours were beautiful. But everything was kind of blurry and I felt the dream ending. I rubbed my hands together, but that just made it end faster and I woke up.
This was probably the closest I ever got to a lucid dream and my question is how do I stabilise it? Rubbing my hands didn't work and I don't think spinning around would have helped much either. I know the dream was quite fragile, but how do I make it less so?

TLDR - Had a very short WILD, rubbing hands didn't stabilise it and it was ended. Need help.

Thanks for reading, that was a long one.