Night 1, with attempted WILD

(As opposed to night 1 with attempted WILD: “night 1, with attempted WILD” implies both that this is night 1 and that I attempted WILD, while “night 1 with attempted WILD” merely implies that this was the first night that I tried to use WILD. Anyway…)

So WILD didn’t work at all: upon waking up, I didn’t remember any dreams at all, and none of my reality checks “failed”. I don’t really want to try WBTB, as that would seem to require an alarm clock and I’m phobic of alarms, so would MILD be a good idea next time? Wikipedia seems to imply that it’s good for beginners.

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*If you wonder why did i got brain twist during MILD writing, read my title/rank

Print that, read up to 30 and almighy power of MILD will send you bless of losing of vision and maybe lucid dream.

MILD is more succefully to ~70% of people. This is best method for beginners, i recommend using it with autosuggestion. Index of all methods is somewhere on Wikibooks. Te key to lucid dreaming is to find one techniqe that works best for you.

Mild is a mix of WBTB, VILD, WILD and autosuggestion. What’s so great about it?

Effectivity.

Following if MILD = WBTB+VILD+WILD+Autosuggestion

WILD is mix of MILD, autosuggestion, WBTB, and VILD

VILD is mix of MILD, autouggestion and WBTB

Autosuggestion is mix of MILD and VILD


No sense.

I can’t do MILD… only WBTB weirdly, WILD doesn’t work for me either. Though MILD probably is better for begginers… and normal people who don’t wake at 5am every single night to write down their dreams…

I have to disagree. I don’t see how MILD incorporates VILD, and I don’t think that it really incorporates WILD, save the fact that you have to have a certain train of thought near the sleep barrier. WILD doesn’t require MILD, autosuggest, or VILD. Autosuggestion is more like a very short and unfinished MILD.

The way I see it, MILD is easy to learn, and very effective, WILD and VILD can become reliable once you learn them well, and autosuggestion is a good way to get lucid without expending so much effort into doing it.

[size=34]Hey! Where’d the good ol’ RC’s go to?! :'([/size]

Letting out the MILD parts.

WILD - You don’t have to tell your subconscious anything in WILD, you don’t have to stand up after a few hours and go to sleep again. You don’t have to visualize a dream.

VILD - You don’t have to tell your subconscious anything in VILD, you don’t have to stand up after a few hours and go to sleep again.

Autosuggestion - You don’t have to visualize a dream.

MILD (from the definition of ld4all.com) - you have to wake up after your dream is over. You have to lie down in your bed, awake, autosuggest a sentence and you have to visualize your dream.

It works because you are setting your intention to remember to do something pretty much the same way you would do so in waking life. This makes MILD more accessible than some other techniques, including the WILD family. If you can walk into a store and remember that you need toothpaste when you walk by the toiletries isle, then you have the mental faculties necessary to see a flying nun and remember that you want to realize that you are dreaming. That is what makes MILD great. With MILD, all you are doing is setting your intention to remember to do something, then you just do it! Unlike WILD, you do not have to keep MILD going until the transition from waking to sleeping. All you need to do is set your intention well enough so that you remember to do a reality test later in the night when you recognize a dreamsign.

While MILD includes an intention to wake up in the middle of the night, combining it with the WBTB technique still works really well. MILD+WBTB+WILD (when I wake up in the middle of the night, I stay still and wait until I return to the dream) sums up my LD routine.

As for VILD? I, frankly, see it as a watered down version of MILD and fail to see why it is so popular. :smile: But if it works for you…

Lol, a watered down version of MILD… That’s what I meant. MILD is a mix of different styles to make it effective. I wasn’t mocking it. My question was pure and honest.

What you say in the first few sentences about the remembering is autosuggestion. And keeping your dream scene repeating until you “fall a-lucid” is VILD. Well, anyways, doesn’t matter…

I will try to do MILD tonight, because I feel really confident to do an LD. :smile:

Should I work on my dream recognition, too? Remembering nothing but “dream” or “no dream” is pretty bad, especially if it turns out you did have a dream despite not remembering it :smile: