I find MILD easier at beginning of night and WILD easier toward end. As for satisfaction I would day I WILD because in WILD I enter dream fully lucid whereas with MILD I have to crank up my lucidity.
It might be annoying but I can honestly claim Ive had my best WILDs and DILDS with WBTB. Your chances are so high of success its incredible, worth the effort.
I find WILD more foolproof, personally. There is always the possibility of signs in your dream screaming that you are dreaming and the like, and you might even be thinking about it, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you will lucid dream. Or at least, that’s from personal experience. (I can’t count the number of times that I am telling myself in a dream that I will become lucid and… don’t.)
Point: A successful WILD has a higher probability for some people to get them lucid than a successful MILD.
MatrixMan, you said that a succesful WILD has a higher probablilty of getting people lucid. Wouldn’t a succesful WILD have 100% lucidity rate because you are entering the dream state in regular consciousness?
Right you are, WILD is 100% lucidity upon entering a dream. But as for a first timer, I wouldnt suggest WILD while going to sleep at night as the best course of action for trying to LD.
From personal experience I don’t believe it to be the most user friendly technique for beginners. Kinda like taking someone that doesnt know how to swim and throwing them in the deep end of the pool.
The most satisfying method is the one that gives you the most LD’s. For some people that is WILD, but most people get more LD’s from other methods like MILD, VILD etc.
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In additon, WILD at the beginning of the night tends to fail because of the sleep cycle. At the beginning it takes about 90 minutes to enter REM, 30 of which are Delta Sleep and almost no dream content is reported from delta.