Meditate. Breathe, focus everything you have on breathing.

Anotherone is to focus on the black behind your eyelids, then move your focus to tacile, like the feeling of your blanket. Then move to sound. Focus on your fan noises or a clock ticking. And just keep cycling

If you dont now how to meditate you should focus on intentions based teks first. Meditation is basically a requirement for all the ILDs

Wb2b can be an easy way if you dont want to put in the effort

Instead of trying to keep your mind active, wear your body out. Work in the yard until you're trudging, but do it with a clear mind as a meditative practice. Focus on labor and let your mind rest, then when you hit the bed your body will conk out and your mind won't be overworked needing silence as well.

WILD works best with WBTB, as doing WILD at the sleep onset does not do much. We go to deep sleep first before reaching optimal REM for dreams, doing WILD while sleeping will just keep you more alert and reduce the Deep sleep quality.

for lucid dreams, the conscious should get lower before increasing again at REM stage. like a dip.

i'd suggest to work on Dream Quality and Recall first if not reached yet. if you can't recall 1-2 dreams 4-5 times a week, trying lucid dreams would be like going on a slower path.

however, if you managed to stabilize dreams and have good recall, LUCIDNESS will be relatively easy.

I can't help you because I'm currently incompetent with lucid dreaming, but I wanted to ask you something to better understand what you're talking about: is the technique you practice (even if it's not a technique but a type of lucid dream) WILD?

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This literally happens to be every night but results in sleep paralysis cause I panic.

For it’s me realizing “oh shit, this is a dream, and now i can do whatever i want.” I don’t know what it’s like to start a dream lucid. Where would one begin? I’ve had one or two times where I’m lucid in my room then go from there but that is rare. Care to explain?