Yo! I tried to WILD earlier today, and a couple of days ago during an afternoon nap. They were my first proper WILD attempts. I did try a WBTB one but I ended up inadvertently doing a MILD and falling asleep and becoming lucid later on leading to my first lucid dream.

During both of these attempts, I've gotten to a stage where I can see mild swirling colours and things that look like electronic static flying around my eyes, but during this phase my body starts to feel really strange and my breathing gets heavier and increases in rate and I start to feel actually more alert rather than like I'm going deeper in which stops the imagery completely. I count 1 to 100 and back. I only feel like I'm going deeper in when I start to lose my conscious and snap out of it. Is that feeling the onset of sleep paralysis and me reacting to the strange alien feeling because when I tried to get out of bed I found it was more difficult that usual to move, I had to force my numb hand open even though I was fully awake.

What is with the breathing and feeling of heart rate increasing? I read your heart rate speeds up during rem, so maybe it's just entering REM? I don't know, but when I read all the forum posts, everyone seems to be all relaxed and I just don't seem to be relaxed in this stage. :/