Thread: DILD- Why is it the Underdog?

When Dream Induced Lucid Dreaming was first discovered as a way to actually actively participate in the dream world via lucid dreaming, I think that people looked at it as "hard" and "impossible to master" so they came up with more induction techniques to help people not so inclined to work with DILDs. This gave birth to MILD and WILD first off, and not too soon after to WBTB. Now, it seems like every week there is a new post about someone having their own master technique and wanting to share it with the world. I'm not saying some of these don't have merit (Clarity's WILD method is probably one of the more famous on this forum; I dig, I dig ), but it seems as if the granddaddy of them all has been forgotten. Every newbie comes in with this "I wanna dream!" attitude and every experienced person who welcomes them points them straight to WILD and WBTB. What about NOT waking up and losing sleep in the middle of the night? What about NOT trying to lay perfectly still for over an hour and ending up just falling asleep? What about DILDs, baby?

RCs are kind of background inducing techniques. I mean, you RC during the day, but there's not much else.
So people come up with other things to do alongside RCs, to complement them. Just doing RCs during the day... gets boring. We want some more techniques to try.

WILD also satisfies our love of instant gratification if it succeeds.

I still depend on DILD because nothing else has worked for me X.x

Um, a DILD isn't a technique, it's a type of lucid dream.

DILD = Dream Induced Lucid Dream
WILD = Wake Induced Lucid Dream

To achieve a DILD you can use the MILD technique: Mnemoncially Induced Lucid Dreaming.
To achieve a WILD you can use the Hypnagogic Imagery technique.

So, aye, the only underdog is strict knowledge of terminology. But then again, not everyone has read LaBerge's EtWoLD.

Well pardon my problem I read it like two years ago lol

But I see your point and I must admit it's a good one!

Yeah people want to experiment with techniques to increase frequency of LDs. Given my current life schedule however, I am personally content with going for DILDs only.