Thread: Which method works the best for you?

My LD method of choice are DILDs, but I am fair at WILDs.

Mine are always DILDs, or accidental WBTBs.

WBTB paired with MILD. Both easy... I'm used to getting up in the night..

WILD works best for me, (WILD+WBTB)

And where’s the LLILD (Lucid Living Induced Lucid Dream)????

This poll raises a question I’ve often wondered about: is DILD a technique?

I don’t think it is. It is not something you do during the day to help induce LDs, but rather something that happens after you fall asleep and are in a dream. Then there seem to be 3 primary ways to become lucid: you do a Reality Check; you observe a Dream Sign; or you spontaneously become lucid.

My preferred method is LLILD, but once in a dream I become lucid either spontaneously or thru Dream Signs.

Originally posted by Dust Mote
This poll raises a question I’ve often wondered about: is DILD a technique?

I don’t think it is. It is not something you do during the day to help induce LDs, but rather something that happens after you fall asleep and are in a dream. Then there seem to be 3 primary ways to become lucid: you do a Reality Check; you observe a Dream Sign; or you spontaneously become lucid.

Technically, yes, it is a technique that utilizes reality checks and dream signs. It doesn't take as much effort as some of the other techniques used to induce lucidity, but that doesn't mean it isn't one.

Getting used to doing RCs while dreaming does take practice during the day - you have to train your mind to be in the habit of doing them, or you won't do them while dreaming.

Originally posted by Burns

Getting used to doing RCs while dreaming does take practice during the day - you have to train your mind to be in the habit of doing them, or you won't do them while dreaming.

Hey Burns,

You kind of made my point with that statement. Doing RCs during the day is the technique; call it RCILD. You are doing Reality Checks during the day, a technique. If you then do RCs in a dream the technique is working.

But a DREAM Induced Lucid Dream. How can a dream induce an LD?

Originally posted by Dust Mote
But a DREAM Induced Lucid Dream. How can a dream induce an LD?

I understand the point you're trying to make. Call it whatever abbreviation you want, but I still consider DILD a technique because for most people, part of DILD is the RC practice - so it's all tied in together. Doing RCs during the day conditions the mind to do it at night, therefore a DILD via RC would be a result of the technique of practicing RCs. Does that make any sense?

Some people just spontaneously become lucid without doing RCs (me). I can see how you wouldn't want to necessarily consider that a technique, per se. But, at some point, you still say to yourself, "Hey, this isn't real - I must be dreaming!" (sort of doing a RC).

I guess DILD is one of those gray zones.

Originally posted by Dust Mote
But a DREAM Induced Lucid Dream. How can a dream induce an LD?

Cause and Effect, I suppose. The scenery/actions in the dream are what tells you to try a RC.
If it weren't for the dream's effects, you wouldn't have thought of using the RC.

Well, more often than not, you know that you're dreaming even before the RC, at least it's that way for me, usually. The RC is just confirmation of what I'm already assuming. So in a way, the dream does initiate the lucidity.

I can recall one distinct event where an RC clued me in first, though. The day before I had been talking to someone about how light switches don't normally work in dreams, and in my dream I was flicking a faulty light switch. After a time I realized that I had recently talking to someone about this and became lucid. I woke up shortly after, though.