Did I miss a memo?

When did WBTB graduate to being a technique?

As Paigeyemps said, WBTB is an aid, and one that can be used with any technique, really. It is not a technique on its own. If it were, then everyone getting up to pee at night would be practicing WBTB, and LD's would be commonplace. Indeed, WBTB more reflects when you're doing your actual technique or LD attempt than it reflects how you're making that attempt.

I mean no disrespect, especially to intheworldofnim, but when a whole thread seems to imply that WBTB is an actual way to become lucid on its own, it raises a concern that about a new "term" coming into common use that is not based on the reality of what it really is. Or am I too late?