Quote Originally Posted by JayTabes91 View Post
And is DEILD just a version of WILD that shortens the time it takes to induce sleep paralysis?
In my opinion it is only related in the fact that the classification system would get too complex. We try to lump all the styles into dreams that are already happening, in which you become lucid, and all the other involving you staying aware as you fall back to sleep.

DEILD has the benifit of making the WILD enter straight into the REM cycle, which is by far the easiest to LD in. It has the disadvantage of you being so far gone in sleep already that yoou easily forget to stay aware.

WBTB is a pure WILD in the meditative trance sense. You actually fully awake the mind and attempt to stay aware while allowing the body to sleep.

So WILD can be the entire class of styles that involve you starting while awake. The WILD skill people talk about does not work well at the end of a day, so if you sleep for say 5ish hours and try to enter a trance with full awareness (dampened, but aware) they call it WBTB. In DEILD being good at WBTB helps, but no mental training or skill is needed. The down side, you have to naturally wake while a dream is in progress, as where traditional WBTB can be attempted a few times each night.