Simple question. Most of the tutorials I've found kinda gloss over probably the most important part of WILD. They're like, "Wake up in the middle of the night, then go back to sleep, and boom you're in a dream" or something else like "be conscious while falling asleep".

I don't know what being conscious while falling asleep means.

All of my WILD attempts boil down to going back to sleep and hoping for the best, recently while reciting my mantra. It feels like it's random, and I've only gotten 1 WILD ever to work, so I feel like this aint it. I want WILDs to work because DILDs are literally just rng and WILDs were appealing to me because it seemed like you have more control. However, out of 11 LDs, 10 have been DILDs! The only way the more RNG intensive option is more reliable than the one with more control is if I'm doing it wrong.

Here's what happens in an IDEAL scenario:
Set auto dismiss alarm for 4:00am, sometimes 5 depending on when I get to sleep.
Get in bed usually around 10:30pm. I usually won't actually be asleep until 11 or 12.
Wake up at desired time, after which one of 2 things happen:

Either I fall asleep immediately while reciting my mantra, and nothing happens. I really try to feel it, too.
Or, I can't go to sleep, and I stay up for another hour, then the first thing happens.

This is what worked the first time but never again for some reason.

I don't know what to do.