Thread: Naiya's Simple MILD Technique

I think my dreams have taken a slow but steady tumble while using this technique.
Maybe I'm not doing it well enough or I'm doing it wrong, but it seems doing nothing but believing isn't helping my recall at all. I can't even remember my dreams now, I have to rely on the notes I take to remember them in the morning.

Let me start by saying I do not keep a dream journal or take the time to work on my recall whatsoever.

Results: I HAD AN LD I decided to imagine a level on a video game I played. Now that I have awoken I am still a little shocked. It seems that I was able to incubate the level, while I was visualizing I was imagining girls all over the place and before I know it I was in the dream and seeing girls I have seen having sex on that level. My lucidity did not come from this but later in the dream though.

But awesome otherwise.

For the past 5 nights that I have been doing this method, my dreams have gone down in clarity and number.

It's not for me, I'm going back to WBTB.

Originally Posted by Origami

For the past 5 nights that I have been doing this method, my dreams have gone down in clarity and number.

It's not for me, I'm going back to WBTB.

I've noticed my clarity in dreams reduced as well when starting to use this technique, but I still managed to remember 5-8 dreams each day. I'll keep trying with this technique though, to see if it works.

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Originally Posted by rynkrt3

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What is it?

Originally Posted by Origami

What is it?

That, my friend, is a period.

Originally Posted by rynkrt3

That is the reason you will never have many LD's. This method works for everybody, just give it 2 months like she said, not 5 days...

Too true. Consistency is the bread and butter of what Naiya is teaching here. If you can't take even that away from this post, then you've got a long, hard road ahead of you.

Originally Posted by Origami

For the past 5 nights that I have been doing this method, my dreams have gone down in clarity and number.

It's not for me, I'm going back to WBTB.

Unfortunately, 5 days is not nearly enough time to be able to tell if MILD will work best for you. In fact, 5 days isn't enough to tell that about any technique. For MILD I usually recommend at least several weeks before calling it quits, and that's if you are consistent and do it every night.

Originally Posted by Naiya

Another variation of this is to use a movie, video game or book. You can make up a completely imaginary environment, perhaps something from your daydreams. Imagine yourself lucid in the environment, doing whatever you want to do...

Naiya, do you have any tips on how to keep your mindset to lucid while you're imagining the scenario?
For instance, I've been 'daydreaming' myself to sleep since I was little. Different scenarios, from epic Harry Potter-style battle scenes to calm, relaxing scenarios. I really think your technique will work wonders for me if I am able to switch my intentions from going to sleep to --> MILDing, but what are the best things I can do to ensure a differentiate between my usual before-bed daydreams to an actual MILD attempt? What is the best way to keep my intentions, lucid?

Originally Posted by Elektra

Naiya, do you have any tips on how to keep your mindset to lucid while you're imagining the scenario?
For instance, I've been 'daydreaming' myself to sleep since I was little. Different scenarios, from epic Harry Potter-style battle scenes to calm, relaxing scenarios. I really think your technique will work wonders for me if I am able to switch my intentions from going to sleep to --> MILDing, but what are the best things I can do to ensure a differentiate between my usual before-bed daydreams to an actual MILD attempt? What is the best way to keep my intentions, lucid?

Very Good question that I do not know how to answer. Awaiting response as well.

And Naiya, can this technique be used as a stand alone technique if I give it time? Ada is exhausting at times.

Thanks alot Naiya your tutorials are allways awesome and nice explained like everyone's else tutorials.

will try this today and inform ya tomorrow
have nice day.

thank u

I'm feeling really good about this method, I'm going to give it a shot . The idea of visualizing it and just bringing it home with your mantra seems so simple yet beautiful. It seems like something I'd enjoy doing regardless of the outcome.

Thank you.

This will be great for me. I have great visualization and I'm always day dreaming. I have a feeling I will have my first LD soon.

I actually did this yesterday, friday actually in the morning close to the afternoon or so. I fell asleep in about 10-15 minutes, it was a short amount of time. And I had my first Mild! On top of that, being during the day!

And this was my first lucid in over a week. I've had many lucids, but this was by far the easiest method for me, especially after practicing for a while. I'm going to try again tonight to see what happends.

I'm going to relax and clear my mind, and think of a dream seen.

Hi. I have tried this technique for about 3 days now, and every time it has resulted in a lucid dream! I have never had so many LD's in a row before!!! But today I read about the DEILD technique, and now I'm unsure if it was the MILD technique or a form of DEILD. You seee, every time i got the LDs was after I woke up. After waking up, I opened my eyes, moved a bit, and then tried to sleep again. The dream I got after that was lucid, but not in the start. Sometimes, i just suddenly realized that I was dreaming, or a DC would just come up to me and say "Hey! You're lucid dreaming" then I would say "Hey! You're right!". So, my question is: Is these three dreams MILDs or DEILDs?

Hm... probably both. Mostly DEILD, but if you really do open your eyes and move a bit, it would probably be from MILD then.
That's my opinion.

You should really only do MILD after wbtb. Otherwise it's not effective at all

this might sound stupid,but imma say it anyways.does MILD give you sleep paralisis?please respond

No, it shouldn't. With MILD, you do reality checks and mantra's and everything to help become aware in a dream. You can just do to sleep normally and still have it happen. If you combine it with WBTB, you are more awake while asleep (yeah..) so you notice things more than if you were asleep for 4 hours before.

So no, you don't have to go through S.P. to do MILD.

Naiya, I am going to do this technique for 90 days and give a week by week report. Thanks for the tutorial.

For some reason i've never really given MILD a fair shot, but your post really inspired me to do so. Which is why I plan on keeping this up for some time. In fact, during this first week i've briefly become lucid twice, which is encouraging I think this might actually be my thing. Thank you for sharing!

Originally Posted by Elektra

Naiya, do you have any tips on how to keep your mindset to lucid while you're imagining the scenario?
For instance, I've been 'daydreaming' myself to sleep since I was little. Different scenarios, from epic Harry Potter-style battle scenes to calm, relaxing scenarios. I really think your technique will work wonders for me if I am able to switch my intentions from going to sleep to --> MILDing, but what are the best things I can do to ensure a differentiate between my usual before-bed daydreams to an actual MILD attempt? What is the best way to keep my intentions, lucid?

One ways way to keep it at the front of your mind would be to continually imagine yourself doing various kinds of dream control and then remind yourself that you can because it's a dream. So for example, recall your most recent dream, imagine you RC and become lucid, and then imagine yourself fly, thinking "I can fly because this is a dream." Then go on to imagine yourself remembering any tasks you might want to do, like "What was the Lucid Task of the Month?" So as you go along, just keep casually reminding and affirming that this is a dream. Think of it like a practice run. When you are in the actual lucid dream later, it'll be easier for you to keep yourself lucid and keep on track because you'll be used to associating the lucidity with reminding keeping yourself lucid and remembering what you wanted to do.

Originally Posted by Fedor

Very Good question that I do not know how to answer. Awaiting response as well.

And Naiya, can this technique be used as a stand alone technique if I give it time? Ada is exhausting at times.

You can absolutely use this technique as a standalone method. The great thing about it is, sooner or later you will get lucid from it. And if you get impatient, you can just keep doing the MILD and consider it your backup, while you do some other techniques like RC or WILD. So if you still need to shop around for other techniques, you'll always have MILD to fall back on and you won't lose time in making progress. And for the record, practicing MILD is really helpful if you want to learn WILD later--the visualization technique I use for MILD is very similar to what I do for WILD.

Originally Posted by topten35

I actually did this yesterday, friday actually in the morning close to the afternoon or so. I fell asleep in about 10-15 minutes, it was a short amount of time. And I had my first Mild! On top of that, being during the day!

And this was my first lucid in over a week. I've had many lucids, but this was by far the easiest method for me, especially after practicing for a while. I'm going to try again tonight to see what happends.

I'm going to relax and clear my mind, and think of a dream seen.

Awesome!

Originally Posted by WDr

Hi. I have tried this technique for about 3 days now, and every time it has resulted in a lucid dream! I have never had so many LD's in a row before!!! But today I read about the DEILD technique, and now I'm unsure if it was the MILD technique or a form of DEILD. You seee, every time i got the LDs was after I woke up. After waking up, I opened my eyes, moved a bit, and then tried to sleep again. The dream I got after that was lucid, but not in the start. Sometimes, i just suddenly realized that I was dreaming, or a DC would just come up to me and say "Hey! You're lucid dreaming" then I would say "Hey! You're right!". So, my question is: Is these three dreams MILDs or DEILDs?

Personally, I consider DEILD a form of WILD. Basically, you wake from a dream and then re-enter that dream immediately. So there's no break in consciousness. So it sounds like you had MILDs, but sometimes these things can overlap. A lot of my lucids are like yours, because I wake up in the middle of the night and then MILD again before going back to sleep. In either case, my advice is to just keep doing whatever you're doing. The name or label doesn't matter, so long as it's working for you.

Originally Posted by That

You should really only do MILD after wbtb. Otherwise it's not effective at all

I wouldn't say it's not effective at all, but you are right that MILD works better with WBTB.

Originally Posted by shysweetiepie27

this might sound stupid,but imma say it anyways.does MILD give you sleep paralisis?please respond

Generally, no, MILD will not give you SP. It's meant to allow you to fall asleep, go through the normal sleep cycle, and basically RC when you're dreaming or remember that you're dreaming.

Originally Posted by TheKing

Naiya, I am going to do this technique for 90 days and give a week by week report. Thanks for the tutorial.

Cool! Let me know how it works for you.

Originally Posted by Woozie

For some reason i've never really given MILD a fair shot, but your post really inspired me to do so. Which is why I plan on keeping this up for some time. In fact, during this first week i've briefly become lucid twice, which is encouraging I think this might actually be my thing. Thank you for sharing!

It does seem that MILD isn't as cool or attractive as, say WILD. But I think it's very fun and easy to do. Congrats on your lucid!

I'm really trying to build up momentum with my MILD and R.C.s. It's hard though, even though I try to do more and more each day, it never seems to be enough. I combine them with WBTB but still nothing.

I'm going to try WBTB in the morning instead of in the middle of the night tonight. That's if I bother to get out of bed.

Oh wait, I was going to try out a DEILD alarm method... um... I will leave the alarms, I can't see them working.