No, the reason this is recommended is that for many people if they don’t wake up enough they fall back asleep to easily instead if WILDing. If less time awake is making it easier for you to get dream of hypangogic imagery, then by all means go with that variation.
[mod]This is a split topic, the next part is First Steps to WILD part V (Basic WILD Q&A). 
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