Thread: SSILD is becoming Academical!

Oh that's a cool find Micheal! I hope members continue to share lucid dreaming research here on the forum. Is there a particular story to how you came upon this one?

I'm not familiar with Cosmiciron; who are they?

Those are some very interesting findings! I'm surprised that although both MILD and SSILD are similarly effective, there is no benefit of using both. Generally, that could mean that they act through the same pathway or that they each reach the effect plateau (the maximum result). Yet, I would imagine both to act in complete different ways... MILD, making use of prospective memory, and SSILD, making use of... vigilance?

It's possible that the hybrid technique was not well calibrated... Perhaps it would have been better to start by setting the intention and then do SSILD. SSILD is very passive/observatory and interrupting it constantly by setting an intention might have rendered it useless. [This would explain the lack of synergy observed in the hybrid group]

Also, in both cases, they used WBTB. I wonder if MILD (and SSILD for that matter) is still effective if used before falling asleep before the night rather than 5 hours into the night sleep (that is, without WBTB). Or I wonder, if in both cases, it's only just WBTB that is effective, as long as it's paired with a cortical-activity-enhancing activity such as setting an intention (MILD) or focused attention (SSILD). [This would explain the plateau effect seen in the hybrid group]