Ok last night i was realy realy tired,so I said to myself as i tried to fall asleep, "Im dreaming,Im dreaming,etc) for like 30 seconds until i was asleep.Then after a while in my dream,i thought i was a dream,did and RC and WHalah,Im lucid.THe wierd thing is,is that i almost NEVER do RC’s,so i know it was the method.And this is my first LD (exept for once when i was 6) and i could easly fly,kill people,and read (but i read my own name so i woke up.) I guess im just a natureal at LD’s. =D
I call this method the " ID_" method for, IM DREAMING,repeat.
Yep…sorry to say that this method has been previously discovered. I would say it’s either MILD or even WILD, as in WILD you can fall asleep by thinking ‘1 i am dreaming, 2 i am dreaming, 3 i am dreaming, 4 i am dreaming’
MILD is a diffrent thing, you are repating that you will recogenize dream… repeating “I’m dreaming” is actually WILD. This time there was no hallucination, and SP was totally passed… but well LD was LD. getting up and doing RC is one of WILD variations. So, I’m sorry to dissappoint you, Hootrootsoup but that was kind of WILD But congrats on your first LD
I was under the impression that the difference between WILD and MILD is not small changes in a mantra (I have used ‘I’m dreaming’ as a MILD mantra on occasion) but rather is that while MILD is repeating mantras before sleeping (Mantra Induced) to increase your chances of having an LD, WILD is the direct traversal from a waking state to a sleep state (Wake Induced), while remaining aware. The way that I interpreted Hotrootsoup’s post was that he repeated a mantra before sleeping, then realized he was dreaming at a later time “Then after a while in my dream,i thought i was a dream,did and RC and WHalah,Im lucid.” (I could be wrong).
So, I have to disagree. I think what he experienced was MILD.
I agree with archdreamer. It is MILD if you autosuggest something related to becoming lucid at a later time. The exact form of the Mantra does not matter. The point is, you become lucid somewhat later (if at all) and may be unconsciously asleep in the meantime.
WILD, on the other hand, means passing “seamlessly” from wakefulness to dreaming by keeping an amount of awareness during the whole time. You do not have to suggest anything to yourself, although it may be useful as a fallback in case you accidentally fall asleep.
At least that’s how I understand those techniques.
Congrats on your first LD!!! Yea sounds like MILD to me. Thats awesome you could do whatever you wanted in your LD, like flying. Wish I had the same control in my first LD!
Also, Congrats! The first deliberate LD is almost always a huge milestone, and this sounds like a pretty good LD for a first timer. Hopefully you get a motivation boost out of it
Hotrootsoup was repeating a mantra that kept him conscious while falling asleep. At some point he felt that he was dreaming. So he got up and did RC that confirmed that he was dreaming. Keeping conscoiusness while asleep falling by counting or repeating mantra is typical WILD. MILD is not Mantra Induced Lucid Dream but Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams, by repeating mantra recogenizing dreams is easier. in MILD there is no thing as consciousness while falling asleep.
Duck: I think we are both interpreting what Hotrootsoup said differently. I took “after a while in my dream,i thought i was a dream” to mean that he lost consciousness and went into an ND state before lucidity. I don’t think either of us are wrong, because the post could be taken either way. Regardless, it’s obvious that you know what you are talking about, so I think we can agree that whether it’s MILD or WILD, it’s definitely not a new technique
No, I think we can agree that whether it’s MILD, WILD, or a new technique (which I personally doubt, but it’s entirely possible…), at least you found an effective way to LD!!
This implies he was in a dream already before he got lucid. So I think it was MILD, DILD or even RCILD. May be interpreted differently, but I don’t see how it can be mistaken for WILD.
But I agree that the way how one becomes lucid is not as important as the ability to become lucid at all.
Yes archdreamer is right, i got mildly lucid at the end of a LONG ND, then did a RC and became lucid at the start of my next dream, (diddnt wake up though)
MILD is a diffrent thing, you are repating that you will recogenize dream… repeating “I’m dreaming” is actually WILD. This time there was no hallucination, and SP was totally passed… but well LD was LD. getting up and doing RC is one of WILD variations. So, I’m sorry to dissappoint you, Hootrootsoup but that was kind of WILD 
But congrats on your first LD 
