So just a little background. I starting my attempts at lucid dreaming 3-4 years ago. I'm very familiar with various techniques. I figured I would let you know this since I made a brand new account.

Last week I had my first successful WILD. I have been experimenting with WILDs for a while and found something that works for me. Basically, I consciously create a day dream world in my mind, and push myself to the boundary of unconsciousness until my subconscious starts projecting things into my day dream. Eventually I start feeling strange pulses, hear ringing noises, and end up in a state which I'm pretty sure is sleep paralysis. After that I'm dreaming.

I've gotten close to succeeding two more times this week, but both times, the same thing happened and I was kicked awake. What happened was that my subconscious was at the point of taking over and I started feeling those weird pulses. I floated off of my bed, and it felt like sleep paralysis was on its way. However, both times this happened, something felt different from when I successfully WILDed. After that, I got kicked awake instead of going any further. The first time this happened I let my conscious mind take over too much and I woke up. The second time, I kept it suppressed and lasted a lot longer. I think that I maintained the same amount of unconsciousness that I had when I succeeded a week ago, but I still woke up.

I'm just wondering if anyone knows what I'm experiencing. Am I letting myself regain too much consciousness or is there something else that's happening?