Quote Originally Posted by Puffin View Post
I strongly disagree with your post.
Good.

Quote Originally Posted by Puffin View 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.
No it's not. Let's not tell fibs. To be able to DILD, you need to be pretty much constantly questioning reality. And even ignoring the time it would take to set that up, is that a mental state anyone would really want to be in?

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Through DILD, I've achieved 99% of my lucid dreams.
Then you're either counting partially lucid dreams as lucid dreams, or you haven't had very many. If we count partially lucids, then whoop di do I've had thousands.

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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.
DILD takes much more effort and thought. And yes, WILD lucids often put the person back into SP afterwards. But the argument for DILD was, "no need for SP". And the reality is, you're gonna get SP whenever you mess around with your sleep, be it WILD or DILD.

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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 mindset of thinking reality isn't real? Trust me, that gets old real quick.

But to your other point about duration -- if a DILD were to last longer than a WILD, it's only because you've slipped on the lucidity scale. There's always a tradeoff between lucidity and duration, so less lucid dreams tend to last longer. So if we're counting dreams where you're not really lucid, then sure they last super long. Great. We can all just eat bananas and call it a day, and say we're having tons of lucid dreams.

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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.
Until you can explain, in a concrete way, exactly what "awareness" is, and how to scientifically increase it, it will remain a mumbo-jumbo ex-post-facto justification for the lucky folks who have had successful DILDs and don't want to admit it was LUCK.