The technique driven mentality and mind-hacking

[Yves]

@GreenDragon

@ Yves
I’m not so sure about the usefulness beyond helping to describe. I mean I can see the use in saying I find DILD works better for me than WILD. To save having to say, I find I get lucid during a dream that is already happening more than I do from going to sleep maintaining awareness. It’s less wordy and more to the point, but as far as helping to induce lucid dreams…

The concept of trying to get lucid by staying aware is useful whether you know the name or not. I’d say it could be harmful if people ascribe too much to the label WILD, like “to WILD means to sleep on your back” or some such, as a raw example. “or to wild means to count to keep aware when trying to sleep” Such an idea limits creative solutions, there are many ways to stay aware when falling asleep, you can’t do WILD wrong, a WILD is just a type of lucid dream. That’s more what I’m considering here.

Oh, no, I know exactly what you mean, and that’s what I was getting at. I meant keeping the terms DILD and WILD just as a kind of classification, not as a technique. I believe that there are significant differences between the two and thus two different terms are warranted. But they shouldn’t be used to necessarily describe techniques or be techniques themselves.