When performing WILDs as soon as the images or dream scene in my mind starts to become "3D" or the dream starts to take shape, I realise that the dream is about to start and I snap out of it. As soon as I realise in my mind that this is turning into a dream, the images disappear and I am back to darkness and staring at the back of my eyelids.

I know I should just keep letting the dream shape itself and not concentrating too much that it is a dream, but by doing that I lose my awareness and fall asleep.

Any tips or does it just take a lot of practise?

Thanks.