Quote Originally Posted by Sageous View Post
tldr: I think your main problem here is that you're paying attention to the wrong things, are not letting your mind get in the right place for sleep and lucidity, and are not relaxing. WILD is all about relaxing and falling asleep while maintaining waking-life self-awareness; no more, no less. I highly recommend that you try the DV WILD tutorial, or my DVA WILD class, and maybe attach less importance to the stuff you read on the internet.
I think you are taking Skyzors stated interest in WILDing too literally here. What was described was essentially a textbook approach to initiating an astral projection, or an OBE, from the waking state. And indeed a description of very nearly achieving it (seeing through closed eyes, vibrations, manically beating heart).

What I would suggest is deciding from the outset whether to go for a wake-initiated lucid dream, or a wake-initiated AP/OBE. Given Skyzors unusual ability to have prolonged HI, I think WILDing is the obvious choice, along with heeding your advice on this.

By the way, I should add for clarity that I have come to believe that WILD and AP are related but distinct conditions, with AP characterized by peripheral awareness, and WILD characterized by the lack of this (this is not a tenaciously held belief, but it is how I see it at present).