Originally Posted by sisyphus
I think what's working for you would best be termed auto-suggestion. With auto-suggestion, you instruct your unconscious mental processes to manifest something. The instruction has to be indirect, through desire, expectation, will, hypnosis, etc. So it's not focused solely on prospective memory but a broader umbrella of mental processes called volition. It's still effective though. In the more recent scientific literature, the most effective DILD techniques in the laboratory (excluding EILDs) are the so-called "combined techniques" that combine suggestion (either auto or posthypnotic), prospective memory, and critical reflection. The distinguishing characteristic of MILD is targeting prospective memory but it really touches all of these. If you aren't doing formal MILD, you're probably still touching all these to some degree, just in different ways and proportions.
Nice response, sisyphus; thanks! That really clarified things.
Yes, while this approach has worked for me on many occasions, I’ve never really thought of it as ‘the’ MILD technique, but rather some type of MILD approach, consisting of a general sense of expectation or intention. It does seem more likely now, though, that it’s down to a number of things, as you said, as I can’t imagine one single activity being the ultimate cause of this lucid response.
Originally Posted by Zoth
Regarding MILD, it's almost impossible to not include the aspect of volition that sisyphus mentioned, but once again, volition is present in pretty much every lucid dreamer's method of induction
I agree, Zoth. I've often thought of the 'MILD' technique as being very versatile, or maybe the sense of 'volition' that's associated with it, as it acts as a supplement to any technique you choose, whilst also being a powerful means of induction itself. So yes, I'd imagine that with any technique, there would naturally be some sense of it present.
Thanks for your responses!
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