Thread: DILD is the Bubble Sort of Lucid Dreaming

Originally Posted by Puffin

I'm not going to refute your entire post because it's not worth it. You've simply been misinformed. A scientific definition of awareness isn't required, because - simply, the DILD technique has worked for me and many others. That's all there is to it. If you'd like to dissect every detail of the technique, be my guest.

I'll help.

DILD is this simple. Question reality periodically, but not all the time. Just whenever you think you're dreaming, or if you have not been aware of your surroundings do a reality check. Keep a dream journal. It's that simple, there's no mental state of awareness that you need to constantly be in to perform a DILD. A partial lucid dream is still a lucid dream, and and if even if you are only partially lucid, you still accomplished a simple DILD. When you do a WILD you don't always enter sleep paralysis, once I was just kicked into a dream, just like that. DILD doesn't ever create sleep paralysis. Basically you're saying all lucid dreams will cause sleep paralysis, which is not true. You are only in sleep paralysis when you're body is physically asleep, you don't feel it when you are dreaming. WILD never even placed me in SP after the dream ended, only before. The mindset of DILDing is not that you think reality isn't real, it is the mindset of questioning reality, knowing when you're dreaming, and being able to control it. Dream length has absolutely NOTHING to do with how many lucid dreams you have achieved, dream length is however long your REM cycle is.

Lucid dreaming is a science. But you don't need science to explain how to lucid dream.

Oh yeah, "LUCK", it isn't real. Just saying.
I'm not the best person when it comes to making a point in arguments.

Originally Posted by Puffin

It's not so much of a habit as really questioning if you're dreaming. Dream signs don't do anything unless you are aware enough to recognize them; if they did work well, people would become lucid every time they flew in a dream, and every time they ended up in strange places.

...How do you really know that you're awake right now?

Is it because your keyboard and mouse feel real, and everything seems normal?

But think - things feel extremely real in a dream too - unless we question it. There's no difference until you really stop and think.

So, are you dreaming?

It's pretty simple once you get the hang of it.