Can't even enter SP!

I have tried WILDing a whole bunch of times, but I never seem to be able to even enter the sleep paralysis stage. I usually go with the counting breaths metod, and as for most out there, I lose my counting due to random thoughts popping up. The problem is, when I realize I've lost count, and start counting again at the number I guess I was at, I always become "too awake", and sorta lose the connection I had with my dreams.

I actually just now tried WILDing during an afternoon nap, and I started off with the counting my breaths as usual. After a while, however, I started feeling like I was bouncing softly, as if I was lying in one of those safety nets that acrobats use, and someone was tugging on it from beneath, letting go, tugging, letting go, and so on. I decided to try and focus on that feeling, and see if that would help me shift my focus from external feelings to internal, and it seemed to work, for a while.

However, the feeling got more and more intense, and I could imagine myself bouncing higher and harder, and I started feeling the wind against my arms and so on, and in the end it got really intense, which made me lose focus and drop right back to before I even felt those feelings. I could still imagine myself in that safety net, I just wasn't bouncing anymore. I tried to regain focus however, and soon I started feeling that sensation of bouncing again. I could keep focused a little while longer this time, but alas, I lost focus when the feeling got too intense. I believe I tried close to 20 times, going a tiny bit further each time, but always losing focus in the end, and dropping right back. Eventually I gave up, after an hour and a half of lying in my bed trying to stay with that bouncing feeling.

I never felt even close to entering sleep paralysis, even though I could kinda "lose" my real body the more I got in touch with the "dream" body (the one that was bouncing).

Was I indeed far away from sleep paralysis? Should I have kept on trying to stay focused all through the "bouncing"? Or did I go straight to a step beyond the sleep paralysis without experiencing it at all? I am getting quite frustrated with this inability to WILD, or even have an SP.

I'm also stuck here, although I just get a weird tingling and my body feels numb. I think that you proabably are talking about the vibration phase just before SP

Tried WILDing again just now, and I'm not sure how far I got. I lost feeling of my arms, legs and most of my torso, or at least it felt like i lost feeling of them. I also felt a heaviness in the same areas. Every now and then it felt like a wave of almost like electricity going through my arms, from the shoulders down to the tips of my fingers. I tried as hard as I could to ignore the tests my body made, but eventually, the feeling of having to change position got too strong, and I couldn't help myself, so I moved, and decided to give up.

All of this took about an hour, with the numbness and "electric waves" going on for about 40 minutes.

I heard that sleep paralysis isn't necessary for WILDs. As long as you can make your visualisations more and more vivid, you can become lucid. Although I've never WILDed before. Also those hypnagogic feelings (spinning, bouncing, falling) aren't meant to last long. I'm gonna put my patience to the test and attempt to stay still all night, whether I sleep or not. Eventually I'll end up sleeping out of exhaustion.

dont worry.. i cant do it either >:(

I haven't had sp in quite a while, but the best times i've gotten there was mostly on lack of sleep, or when i wake up at around 3 or 4 am after 4 or 5 hours of sleep, if i went to bed at 10 or 11. Those are the easiest times i've had of having a wild, sometimes with and sometimes without getting into sp. I love when i have sp during the wilds, i use to be afraid of wilds, but now i find them fun and enjoyable. Its just the feeling of not being able to move i guess which serves as a protection for you, so that you won't act out what you're doing in your dream.

Don't worry last night I tried to WILD and just sat there for 40 minutes and after i gave up it took me half an hour to fall asleep what a waste of time! I don't think WILDING is really for me I haven't ever entered SP or nothing