MILD: Deceptively simple?

[Forrest]

Here's what I can gather of what MILD is. You become relaxed before bed. Then repeat something to yourself along the lines of "I will wake up after each dream". Then you proceed to wake up after dreams and write it down, then go back to sleep imagining yourself back in your dream, where you will hopefully recognize that you're dreaming. Is it really that simple? I know you have to be in the mindset that lucid dreaming will occur. I'm not really sure how difficult that is, or if it's just saying "I hope I have a lucid dream tonight!". If it's any more than that then I'm doing it wrong. If I am, tips would be appreciated. Back to the concentrating. Is it really just repeating the aforementioned mantra and not letting your mind wander that makes you wake up after dreams? Is MILD that deceptively simple? I could be entirely wrong.

[Reality_is_a_Dream]

That is my undersating of it, but I have never gotten around to really trying it.

[Pelephant]

Whenever I try to MILD, I end up falling back to a similar dream to the point of just repeating the dream over again, but I never get lucid. Its only after I wake up that I go "Dang! I knew that feeling of deja vu was important." MILDing never works well for me.

[seeker28]

Yeah, when MILD works that is how simple it is. But like Pelephant pointed out, you don't always recognize that you are repeating your last dream. That is why it is important to question reality a lot when using the MILD technique, just so your dreaming mind has the chance to recognize a repeated dream.

[Reality_is_a_Dream]

Quick question, and I think that it could help Forrest too- Are MILDs more vivid than DILDS, or are they less vivid?

[ninja9578]

MILD is a sub-technique of DILD, they should be the same in terms of vividness.