Did I accidentally WILD?

Okay so here's the abridged version. Prior to going to sleep, I was out golfing from 9am to 3pm, after which without any hesitation I jumped into my shorts & t shirt and starting pumping iron. I was quite hungry afterwards. If you can imagine, this ran my body into the ground, so come 10 pm I'm ready to go to bed - I feel it drape over my like a blanket. So here I am lying in bed slowly drifting off to "lala land" when I notice something weird ( two things actually) I'm seeing a pattern like image of metal walls riveted and feel like I'm staring down a long hallway; all while simultaneously scratching my leg in bed. I knew I was in my bed and was still conscious enough to know I hadn't fallen asleep but i was seeing images in front of my eyes - nothing like the third eye description but actually in front of me. All of this was happening while I lay still in my bed. I didn't feel it going anywhere and I was quick to start looking around the room again, then I closed my eyes and fell asleep.

So, my question to you all is: Was this some pre stage to entering a WILD? Or was is just some hypnotic imagery I was experiencing?

I really would like to get back to this state as I feel after a year of nothing (literally squat) I've just been thrown a small bone.

I'm not familiar with the term WILD, but from my experience your describing what I've known as split-screening. Essentially your awake & dreaming at the same time. I usually experience this when my alarm starts to go off. I know it's going off, but stay in the dream a while longer if something interesting is going on. While I'm deciding what to do, I often will have a layered image. Seeing both the dream still occurring & my room. You can achieve the same in reverse, but it's much more rare.

yes this is what happens before wild.
Its called hypnagogic hallucinations or imagery.
try to influence things you see :)

Cool! well hopefully I'll find my way back to this place sooner than later. I think the most obvious reason is that I was dead tired. Normally when I go to bed, I'm still a little active inside.

I did this too a few days ago. I managed to keep my focus on the imagery and after a while I was completely in the dream world, giving me my first proper lucid dream!