so last night, I tried visualizing the colors of the spectrum as a way to lucid dream. everything started out normal, I got into a very relaxed state and just tried to experience every color in the fullest way possible. I made it through probably 1 or 2 cycles of the spectrum without many other thoughts. but then my body started to feel very heavy which I understand to be a sign of SP. so I kept visualizing the colors to try to escape my physical body but I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t really feel my physical body and when I concentrated, I could feel myself (my dream self most likely) try to burst out from my physical body. at one point it felt like a million tiny needles were poking me. I got really hot and my heart rate was shooting through the roof but no matter what, I couldn’t step into a lucid dream. after this experience, I couldn’t sleep for a very long time. so can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong? what was the pain from and why was my heart rate climbing?
Well. I’m no expert at this, but I have also tried WILD and have got some interesting results myself, aswell.
First of all, I would say that was definetly a SP. Secondly, the poking needles and feeling hot might have been a HH or another feeling of SP. The heart-rate climb is also related to SP, I believe.
When I tried to get a WILD, I also got into the first phase of SP. For me, my body started vibrating in a weird way and my heart-rate went through the roof. I never got to a LD, though, and getting to a permanent sleep paralysis seemed nearly impossible for me.
I would say that your experience was just a normal SP combined with possible hallucinations. (The heat and needles.) It’s hard to describe, really, as every person feels SP differently and not everyone experiences HH.
There’s my two cents. As I said, I’m no expert, but I thought I would give some quick input as I was lurking around the forum just now.
I guess another question Im looking for is how do I “break through” to a lucid dream?
what i’ve noticed with WILD is that stepping into the dream is the most difficult part. There are two big problems surrounding this. First beeing that most people think they have to do something to activate the dream. They begin to visualize hard, express their wishes of what they would want to see- in other words “trying too hard”. You should let your thoughts drift in a way that they seem to go deeper and deeper into the background until finally- they become the background. Understand? The other problem is when one is on the verge of entering a dream. Usually, when one sees the first signs of a dream begining, you concentrate on it. Big mistakre. ALthough you’d think that paying close attention to it would maintain it, it often results in the opposite. One must remain fully passive and only aware even when entering a dream. You cannot, i repeat, cannot turn on your regular thinking mode before you have fully fully entered the dream 
anyways, it varies from person to person. Try yourself forward, it’s the best you can do
alright thanks for the advice. I just will keep practicing this method. my biggest problem is when I just observe my thoughts as they pass by, I tend to fall asleep lol but I’m sure after enough practice this technique will become easier
True. It seems that if you let your mind wander freely you’ll fall asleep and have a ND. If you focus too much you’ll stay awake. Find something inbetween try focusing on your awareness and sensory experience only. But don’t lay there thinking “ok now i’m in SP, soon i should see some HI…” that’s focusing and thinking. Remember- focus only on awareness, feel only body. But don’t reason with it, don’t argue with it, don’t hope of it, don’t try to control it. Just let everything happen around you. Trust me WILD is dead-on hard. I’m yet to master it myself. But I share all the experience i’ve picked up so far.
Peace