Struggling with my WILD'ing

[Woogie9593]

Hello everyone, i am still fairly new to this, though i did try it many times a few months ago before i gave up, im willing to try it again and try harder. This has been my second night trying to WILD (the first night there were too many distractions, people awake etc.) This time however, is the furthest ive ever gotten so i know im doing something right. But i never got to the point of attaining a lucid dream. Basically, i went to sleep and set my alarm for about 4 and a half hours of sleep (due to the fact i dont have time for 6 hours because there will be too many distractions, i have to fix up my sleep schedule) but i believe through my research there is a REM cycle around this point, it just isnt as long as the one after about 6 hours of sleep. I stayed awake for about 15-20 minutes. I layed down and stayed perfectly still and tried relaxing, staring into the darkness of my eyes, and eventually after about 30 minutes i definitely felt sleep paralysis start to kick in. Instead of feeling a heavy feeling i just went totally numb but then i started feeling a few vibrations. During sleep paralysis, i waited and kept on focusing on the objective while trying my best to keep relaxed, but i saw no hypnogogic imagery or colors swirling, voices, pretty much anything that let me know i was progressing past the sleep paralysis phase. I just layed there for about 5-10 minutes until i felt like i wasnt in sleep paralysis anymore (unless you get used to the feeling and u dont feel it as intense anymore?) Anyways, I tried over and over for about 2-3 hours, reaching this same state of sleep paralysis about 3 times with no luck of getting into a lucid dream. I tried imagining a beach in clear detail during my sleep paralysis, but i only saw flashes of a few colors in the darkness of my eyes that you can see anytime during the daytime just by closing ur eyes. I eventually gave up for the morning because i knew at this point i was doing something wrong, and that i probably didnt wake up during the right period for my wbtb method. Also, during the time sleep paralysis hit, my heart was beating pretty fast to the point i could feel it basically beating out of my chest (like when your nervous.) Does this happen to everyone, or is this a symptom that im not relaxed enough? Even while my heart was beating i was breathing and trying my best to relax and i still felt the sleep paralysis, but still no dream or voices/swirling colors. Any advise would be really helpful from any of you, thanks