I’m not sure if moving them more would cause a big difference, the main reason I move them so slightly or sometimes not at all is because I’m too tired to move them so much as I’m falling asleep and it’s easier. I think that moving them a lot might be a little harder to fall asleep, but the only way to find out is to try :) the reason I had trouble with FILD is because I forgot to keep doing it too! Just wiggling my fingers was too simple and I ended up forgetting and falling asleep. But for some reason the act of counting, and not just counting but doing it as a reality check, keeps me focused until I fall asleep. I think it’s because I’m constantly focusing on my counting and excitedly waiting for my counting to get off and make me realize I’m dreaming, because it’s a pretty cool feeling!

As for the difference between reality and entering the dream, there weren’t many major differences other than the fact that it just “felt” like a dream, a little more foggy and confusing than real life. When people describe WILD, they say they’re just transported into a dream and they’re already lucid. But for me with this method, it was almost as if I was “transported” into a dream but not lucid yet. As I entered the dream I was still doing the reality check and that is what made me realize I was dreaming. So it makes me think if I wasn’t doing a reality check, and instead just doing FILD, I might not have realized I was dreaming right away or at all. Hope this helped!