Hi i tried a wild last night, can someone tell me if i accomplished anything last night:
I tried to WILD and was tring the counting thing. I just saw purple, then I think a steamboat (I think), then the boat disapeared and I saw just a sheet of green. I tried “zooming in” like suggested. Then I opened my eyes to see if I was having my first LD. Then I did several reality checks, and guess what… no LD. I tried again but fell asleep. 
So was that hypnotic imagry? Did I get anywhere?
Hypnagogic imagery is a work in progress with me. I’m getting better at it than I am at lucid dreaming.
I get the most vivid Hypnagogia in two ways:
1.) Dismiss EVERYTHING from my mind. Gently, though. Dismiss every sound, picture, thought, as though I’m trying to hear my own internal static. If I hold this conscientiously, I slip off enough to have a rich image flash up.
2.) Count myself to sleep. “1 I’m dreaming, 2 I’m dreaming etc.” This has never gotten me a LD but it sure has triggered some interesting hypnagogia. Several times I’ve gotten close to sleep paralysis with this, but it’s a threshold I can’t cross just yet.
It does look like your getting HI. Just keep at it and it will increase in strength and it will happen more often. Good work so far! 
Yesterday night, I had (hypnagogic imagery?) : I was driving a car and all of a sudden, white lights were striking my eyes, I “woke up” and I could see the white flash just before my eyes upon the “black curtain” of my eyelids.
Was it HI ?
When you get HI it’s important to “stabilize” it- Only then can you try to “zoom in”.
How exactly do you do to “stabilize” the HI, I find it pretty hard because it’s not consistent, it’s just a thought.
It’s just like you stabilize a dream. Make sure you don’t get excited, cause it will ruin it- Focus on the object and let it “evolve” into a scene. When you have a scene, then you can “zoom” into it.
Thanks for the advice, I’ll try to do that as soo as I go to bed tonight. I’ll let you know if I have any result.
Tried again, I didn’t get HI but I think I got SP, that is before I opened my eyes and ruined it, then fell asleep. ( I remember my dream very vividly though)