Thread: DILD is the Bubble Sort of Lucid Dreaming

Originally Posted by Puffin

I strongly disagree with your post.

DILD is a basic technique that doesn't need to involve countless RCs and constantly questioning if you're dreaming. It's a "couple times a day" technique.

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Through DILD, I've achieved 99% of my lucid dreams. It can take just as much effort to DILD as WILD, plus WILD involves sleep paralysis which many people don't want to go through. Never once have I ended up in sleep paralysis after waking from a lucid dream. If your claim is true, then people who WILD would also end up in sleep paralysis after waking.

And DILD isn't just about doing reality checks and hoping they'll appear in a dream. There's an entire mindset involved which can produce some amazing lucid dreams, you just have to know what to do and how to stabilize the dream. And, if you're aware enough (through good DILD practices), you will be able to remain lucid for quite a while.

The problem is, and I believe this is where you're coming from, the DILD tutorials around DV mostly talk about how you just have to RC often and it'll appear in a dream - relying more on chance than anything else. But people always do this, and nothing happens. The tutorials should focus more on awareness, because one has to be aware enough to suddenly become conscious in the dream, then do a RC to confirm. Then it may become a more "reliable" technique in your book.

This. this.

About DILD being the lamest technique, in OP's opnion, I deeply disagree. I belive it's the best technique for a newbie and even advanced lucid dreamers.
I belive someone said, I think it was Walms, that he relies only in DILD, having like 5 lucids each night. And the lenght of the dream was very long, too.