I've been experimenting with lucid dreams for a while. While I know I haven't been doing it in the most optimal fashion (not writing down dreams, not waking up 5-6 hours into normal sleep, staying awake for a short period, then attempting the induction then), I feel like I've been making progress in the way that I am doing it.

Almost nightly I've been attempting WILDs for the past few months or so. For the past year or more, I've attempting many different techniques off and on. I find that I can remember at least the last minute or two of a dream, or certain specific sections of a dream, on a nightly basis. Although I'm not sure this is a very good standard to most lucid dreamers, as I believe it's expected to not only remember one dream, but multiple dreams in a single night without waking up, every lucid dream I can ever remember in my lifetime, I have remembered as vividly as anything I've done in the waking life. I believe that if I do succeed in a WILD or any other kind of lucid dream, I will remember it easily.

But that doesn't have so much to do with my question, I just wanted to give you guys an idea of the conditions in which I've been attempting WILDs. Basically, I've been actively pursuing WILDs for a while now, and I think I'm getting close, but it's hard to tell what sensations I should be feeling. Your state of mind seems to be fairly integral in making it all work, so I try to focus on certain sensations or suppress certain instinctive reactions to different feelings in order to promote a WILD. When I go to bed, I lie on my back and try to remain as still as possible while relaxing. As I lay there, eventually, strange feelings begin to wash over me. These have usually been light tingly sensations, or light numbness, or my limbs will feel heavy (although I sometimes imagine my limbs becoming heavier to help keep them from moving). I've usually mistaken the feelings with that of sleep paralysis, but as I've been practicing this for a while, I've found myself able to reach this state now in mere minutes. I find that unlikely considering I've never felt any strong sensations or vivid hallucinations, or anything like that, and I haven't been successful in a WILD ever. The strongest sensation I've ever felt is my heart beat quickening, or a need to breath faster, which is very distracting. Even when awake, some of these sensations might not be completely unlike what I might feel if I kept my leg or arm in one single position for 20-30 minutes and not moving a single muscle. It's like your limb is inactive for so long, that your mind kind of forgets how it's supposed to feel. Considering that I would believe entering a WILD would have much more intense and recognizable effects, I can't tell if I'm getting closer to a WILD or if I'm not even scratching the surface.

So basically my question is: Are these sensations related to entering a WILD, or are these just random sensations felt when your body is still for excessive periods of time? Any tips would be helpful too. I've been kind of improvising as I go, since it seems to work differently for everyone anyways, and I tend not to obsess over the different written methods of entering a WILD for this reason. I still might be forgetting something important however, so please point it out to me if you find that I have.

Thanks.