Thread: Let's get my Hands on MILD! - 1 YEAR test

Hi!

As I said in my post in the Introduction Zone, my main problem until now has been lack of consistency and changing techniques too frequently. That is now going to drastically change!

For 1 YEAR I'm going to concentrate on this personal Mnemonic Induced Lucid Dream (MILD) version I feel very much drawn to. Even if I initially fail to see results, I'm going to keep working on it without giving up, until I master the art of becoming conscious in dreams.
I'm convinced that everyone who became a frequent lucid dreamer managed to do so by taking what appealed to him the most from others' techniques and developed a personal peculiar method/routine that finally worked for him. That's what I'm striving to do here.

Daytime
- Presence/Self-Awareness practice with Hands trigger:
The goal is to eventually mantain permanent self-awareness. In order to achieve this, I'll use my Hands as a trigger to "wake up" when I'll inevitably come back to a non-lucid mindset: whenever I notice my hands during the day I'll come back to a lucid/self-aware mindset and try to mantain it for as long as possible. That will also train my Prospective Memory.
- MILD mantra, repeated occasionally throughout the day: "When I see my Hands, I remember I'm dreaming." (Inspired by R. Waggoner)

Before Bed
- "Awareness watching Awareness" Meditation
This will reinforce the effects of my daytime Self-Awareness practice.
- MILD mantra coupled with Visualization of myself watching my hands and exploring a dream setting.

Awakenings
- Whenever I wake up (naturally during the night or with a 5 seconds alarm I put after 6 hours of sleep), I'll attempt to Keep Still and vividly Imagine my Hands (clapping or rubbing them).
- If I don't manage to enter directly the dream, I'll just reinforce the same MILD intention and get back to sleep.
- After my actual wake up alarm (usually after 7 hours), I'll recall any dreams I had writing them down in my Dream Journal (detailed for LDs and only key words for Non-LDs).

That's basically it!

I'll consider myself consistent if I can mantain everyday the Basic Routine of Self-Awareness+MILD, while trying to implement all of the steps most of the nights, according to the ups and downs of my daily life.
I'll follow Naiya's take on this: "Practice and consistency are extremely important with MILD. To get the best results, you should be doing it every single night. If you wake up in the morning with no lucids, don't think of it as a failure. If you did the MILD before bed, then consider it a success because you got your practice done. Your lucids will come when your mind has begun internalizing your practice. "

Every tip or critique is very welcome, I thank you in advance, but for 1 year I will not change the basic structure of it.

Resources

• Books:
  Buhlman, William - Adventures Beyond the Body
  Castaneda, Carlos - Journey to Ixtlan
  Koyote The Blind - The Golden Flower
  Laberge, Stephen - Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
  McCaul, Kim - Multidimensional Evolution
  Monroe, Robert - Journeys Out of the Body
  Morley, Charlie - Dreams of Awakening
  Peterson, Robert - Out of Body Experiences
  Raduga, Michael - The Phase
  Taylor, Albert - Soul Traveler
  Vieira, Waldo - Projeciologia
  Waggoner, Robert - Gateway to the Inner Self
  Wallace, Alan - Dreaming Yourself Awake
  Wilson, Ian - You Are Dreaming
  Ziewe, Jurgen - Multi-Dimensional Man
  Ziewe, Jurgen - Vistas of Infinity
  
  
• Articles/Posts:*
  ADA vs. Self Awareness [Internal vs. External] | Dreamviews
  All Day Awareness, A DILD Tutorial by KingYoshi | Dreamviews
  Awareness and Presence | Gurdjieff (pdf)
  Daytime Self-Awareness Helps Lucid Dreaming at Night | Big Think
  Dutchraptor's Deild Guide - Become an Ld god - Dreamviews
  FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall - Both Day and Night | Dreamviews
  How to become a Lucid Master in 60 days or less | Reddit
  Lucid Dreaming Experience Magazine
  My Journey with Self Awareness and My Twist to It | Dreamviews
  My personal method of becoming lucid. If anyone is interested | Dreamviews
  Naiya's Simple MILD Technique | Dreamviews
  Night meditation: Why I no longer perform lucid dreaming techniques, and yet have more lucid dreams than ever | Reddit
  Prospective Memory and Lucid Dreaming | Dreamviews
  Sati: An Eastern Concept of Awareness | Dreamviews
  Sivason's Dream Yoga | Dreamviews
  
  *I can't post links as I'm a new user, but you can find them easily with a search engine.