Thread: Naiya's Simple MILD Technique

Had a MILD this morning after reading this last night. Thank you!

Hi Naiya,

As a total beginner in lucid dreaming, I tried your MILD method this night and here's what happened :

Woke up in early morning due to a natural need, then go back immediately to bed with some images and scenes of the dream I just exit from.
I did visualize a signboard with mantra "I'm dreaming" (in french ^^) on it, this was really easy and great.

Then i did the visualization exercise, the one where we imagine ourselves being lucid, and go on with the dream scenario.
I did feel some weird changes in my perception, did reality checks in my thoughts. At some point, I almost did a little sleep paralysis.

But, as time passed, I found it difficult to fall asleep completely... I mean my mind was wandering from dream scenes to visualisations, reality checks, reading the signboard, etc, but I didn't recall when I really did fall asleep...

My question is : in this situation, shoud I apply the method a few times, and then let it go and fall asleep, or should I persist in this way and try to transition in a dream, or hopefully a lucid dream ?

Anyway I will follow your advice and keep at it for 2/3 months !
Thank you so much for clarifying things (when you begin it kind of complicated haha !)

Cheers !