Utilizing One's Dreams

[Cainite]

I'm really eager to do work in consciousness with sleeping and dreams.  I have been trying the FILD method for lucid dreaming for a few days now but nothing so far.  I feel so tired that I can't move my fingers as the technique suggests.  I would write down my dreams but they are often so utterly random and demented that I don't really know how.  Maybe writing down feelings and impressions is a good place to start as some have suggested on this thread.  With practice, I wonder just how 'real' dreaming can get and the opportunities and experience it can provide.

I don't know what technique you have used but from what you're saying I think I know what's stopping you.
your mind shouldn't be tired when you attempt to induce sleep paralysis..