Quote Originally Posted by Marvo View Post
VILD is actually supposed to be done when you go to sleep, but so far, people have most success with it after a few hours of sleep. Congratulations man, it's a pretty tough technique that, as far as I know, is harder than WILD.
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Ehhh, I would classify VILD as just a method of WILD. All in all, however, I think people are all to eager to create silly acronyms for variations of existing techniques...

I see a WILD as basically, falling asleep while conscious and making a transition into a dream. All that is needed is a constant stream of consciousness. The transition can take many forms, as can the method of focus & retention of consciousness. "VILD" would be one of the latter, as would FILD. (that finger thingie method)

Likewise. MILD is sort of a way of making DILDs more likely. A DILD I see as any method in which the dreamer BECOMES lucid in a dream, or in which he is lucid throughout but was not a result of a stream of consciousness between sleep and wake.

But, I really think that excessive use of classifications and acronymns is a bit superfluous and confusing at times.