Well, I ust recently recovered from a failed WILD attempt. I must say, this is the farthest I've gotten even though I did it right when I went to bed (dumb I know). I laid on my back with my arms against my sides and tried some hypnosis, which I think helped a lot. I told myself that when I counted from 20 to 1 I would be completely relaxed. When I finished that I waited and stared into the darkness of my eyelids, waiting for imagery. when I diverted my attention to my body I couldn't feel anything but a slight breeze from the fan on my left foot. I attempted to lift my right leg slightly, but I couldn't. I repeated this with a lot of my limbs and found that I could only move my right pointer finger and both thumbs. At this point I just waited and waited. The only thing that happened was a tingling sensation in my right hand, but that stopped soon afterward. I'm guessing that I didn't move on because I wasn't in a rem period, and since I wasn't I couldn't slip into a dream, therefor I was actually attempting to go into a normal sleep state, which is impossible because you must be uncouncious for that. The reason I post this is to ask if the fact that I wasn't in a rem period was the cause of my failure.