Thread: Cant attain Lucid Dreaming through Mild

Well, it can take time for method or technique to start working, a week is not enough to say that it doesn't works, especially considering you are having progress anyways, keep going, be patient and think positive!
Also when doing reality checks remember that it's awareness and questioning mindset that makes one lucid, not the action itself, also try to associate reality check with emotions like "Wow, am i dreaming?", that can help too.
Also if you have time you can try WBTB or napping, WBTB is waking up, staying awake right enough to get more aware but still be able to fall asleep, like for 30 minutes or hour, time varies from person to person and you have to experiment a bit to find the right time, in that period of time think about lucid dreaming, do mantras, awareness and so on to get into the right mindset, and then go back to sleep, as for naps are golden for lucid dreaming, and both WBTB and napping usually lets start dream with higher awareness.
Some threads and tutorials to check out:
http://www.dreamviews.com/dild/13212...ods-dilds.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...id-dreams.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/wild/13181...prep-part.html (Even though part of WILD tutorial, can help with pretty much any technique/method)

I agree with Scionox, you need more time than just a week for a technique to start working. I did MILD and reality checks for about 4 weeks before I had my first LD. After that I continued the technique and my LD count slowly rose. You can't give up after just a week. I actually just got back into LD after a long break and have just started MILD again, so I know how it feels to really want to be able to LD when you want. I'm pretty impatient, haha.

Good luck.

took me 45 days to get my first LD through MILD. I had 5 LDs this morning and 2 yesterday. 1 from DEILD. The rest were from MILD. It takes time to take effect and it gets better and easier with time. If your recall or sleep schedule is bad, it can take forever to get it to work if at all. You should try a technique for at least a month before switching. Check out this tutorial:
http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...technique.html

Scionox covered it all. It will most likely (as you have already found out) take longer than a week! Just make sure you keep yourself motivated to continue. Even if you don't notice progress, you make some every time you try the technique as you train your brain to become aware during dreams. I like reading this thread for some good inspiration and motivation. Good luck!

As others have said, 1 week is way too short a time to be looking for LD results from the beginning. In fact, you're barely at the stage where LaBerge (the inventor of MILD and pioneer in the study of lucid dreaming) says you should even start trying. First you should work on your dream recall (dream journal) and your prospective memory. Which you're doing, so you're on the right track.

By far the best resource on MILD and LD in general is LaBerge's works: Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, and A Course In Lucid Dreaming. In ACILD LaBerge he gives explicit step-by-step exercises presented in an order leading up to your first MILDing (he also covers WILD but I prefer non-LaBerge resources for WILDing tutorials since LaBerge doesn't go in to sufficient detail IMO).
He covers: dream recall, identifying dream signs, prospective memory, relaxation, will, etc., and MILD itself.

Naiya's MILD tutorial is good too, I recommend it. But reading LaBerge you'll understand the point to all of these exdercises. His technique has been refined over teaching and improving the techniques to hundreds (thousands?) of people.

I myself started LD training 10 days ago, and just last night after a focused MILD attempt I got a non-lucid dream on the subject that I was visualizing -- a very vivid flying dream. In fact I had 3 awakening with 7 recalled dreams in one night, quite a bonanza, so I'm really psyched to stick with MILD. I had not visualized flying itself as a dreamsign, though, only as an action to take after becoming lucid another way! I've tried a few WILDs, it just mostly keeps me awake and makes me tired, I think it's a bit more advanced in terms of learning exactly how your body falls asleep. The beauty of DILD is that it doens't matter so much how you get to the dream, once you've "trained" and practiced enough, and your awareness is alerted to LD, you can have a very high LD frequency.