Basically, last night I decided to try something new, of my own devices.

I did all the hypnosis stuff from the tutorials, and that helped me come up with a new idea. I did the most part of the hypnosis again, but skipped the last part where you bring yourself back to awareness. Instead I just lay there concentrating on lucid dreaming, and it actually felt like I didn't have any power over my body, like I was tied down or something, so that was pretty cool. I kept repeating "I will lucid dream" over and over in my head, throwing in an "I am lucid dreaming" every now and then to keep my attention on it. Eventually, once I was completely tranced, I became aware of this loud noise - well, not loud as such, just being the only noise I could hear, everything else being silenced under it. It was like that sort of noise when you're ripping material, vaguely like a zipping noise. Like when you're ripping a shirt or something. Anyway, as soon as I realised that this noise was present it disappeared, and I was back to my tranced state again. I couldn't do anymore after that because I suddenly started getting really uncomfortable, and too hot and kept having really bad itches. Either way, I had to settle for a normal sleep and didn't recall any dreams this morning.

Anyway, was this anything like a WILD?
More to the point, is it possible to WILD while just going to sleep for the first time at night, rather than only being able to after being awakened from an REM period?