Thread: DILD is the Bubble Sort of Lucid Dreaming

DILD is the begining technique and the easiest to start out with. Lots of the time it is much easier to WILD after getting a DILD. Not everyone can do WILD, I'm not very good at it but I think I am getting better. There is no reason any lucid dreamer that uses any technique be it WILD, MILD or any other one should not also use DILD. If you fail at WILD then you might realize you are dreaming anyway.If you can snag a few free lucids then why not?!

Oh and BTW your argument that you are likly to lose lucidity has nothing to do with what technique you use. I never lose lucidity wether it is a DILD, MILD or WILD.

Originally Posted by MadMonkey

DILD is the begining technique and the easiest to start out with. Lots of the time it is much easier to WILD after getting a DILD. Not everyone can do WILD, I'm not very good at it but I think I am getting better. There is no reason any lucid dreamer that uses any technique be it WILD, MILD or any other one should not also use DILD. If you fail at WILD then you might realize you are dreaming anyway.If you can snag a few free lucids then why not?!

I should have worded the poll better. I meant what's the MAINSTAY technique. We all get lots of accidental DILDs, of course. But how many people focus all their efforts on DILD, when they have the necessary skill to just do a WILD? Not many. This poll isn't asking what I intended at all.

Originally Posted by MadMonkey

Oh and BTW your argument that you are likly to lose lucidity has nothing to do with what technique you use. I never lose lucidity wether it is a DILD, MILD or WILD.

You're wrong about that. It's a well-known fact that DILDs are more prone to loss of lucidity because you're starting non-lucid to begin with (by definition).

Originally Posted by cmind

But how many people focus all their efforts on DILD, when they have the necessary skill to just do a WILD? Not many.

With all due respect, I don't think you're paying attention (which may be your problem with DILDs, in the first place? hahaha. I kid. ).

I focus my attention on DILD, because it is what gets me the most results. As a kid, I was practically able to DILD at will. Since then, I have - many, many (and I'll say this again, for the people in the back), MANY times - attempted to get better at WILDs. And I will continue to do so, at my leisure. But what has been the painfully consistent outcome is that (probably due to other waking world factors) it's just not the easiest way for me to become lucid.

Maybe when you've been around here long enough, you will see that DILD is the "mainstay" (most common) method for inducing lucid dreams. That is not to say that one method is "superior" to another, which is the picture you are trying to paint. If nothing else, DILD seems to be the easiest. Going further, though: WILDS - when accompanied by the WBTB method - are much easier than just WILDing at the onset of a full night's sleep. Used this way, people tend to have more success with WILDs, because it comes with the added boost of being nearer to (or falling right upon) a REM cycle.

Outside of that, though, you are still providing a conclusion (WILD > DILD) without a single shred of evidence toward that conclusion. Would you like to provide some more rationale for us?

(BTW, if you are using the word "mainstay" to define something that is "taught by default" around here, then you are completely misguided. There is no 'default' way of lucid dreaming that is taught here. Maybe the reason you get that impression is because DILD is taught more readily than WILDs. This, too, should tell you that it's simply the most common technique.)