Thread: Effective combined LD/OBE method, 3 simple steps

Why would you need to MILD if you are WILDing? If you are going to wild, who cares about prospective memory? If you are going to MILD, why waste time WILDing?

Originally Posted by Shift

Why would you need to MILD if you are WILDing?

I wrote at least at two positions in the text that MILD is a fallback function, because WILD can fail when you lose awareness. It makes the method a lot more reliable.

Originally Posted by Shift

If you are going to wild, who cares about prospective memory?

Of course it is important for the MILD fallback.

Originally Posted by Shift

If you are going to MILD, why waste time WILDing?

Because MILD is relatively unreliable, depending on your mindset and skills. In the title it says that it's a combined method and that is exactly what makes it reliable and efficient.

You really could have found that answers yourself. They were all given in the text.

I'm just trying to figure out why the post needs to be written at all. Usually stuff like this is locked, and I'm trying not to do that.

But... isn't any good lucid dreamer going to be doing multiple techniques?

Originally Posted by Shift

But... isn't any good lucid dreamer going to be doing multiple techniques?

Maybe, but this is intended to help beginners. Obviously masters don't need a step by step tutorial. Nevertheless advanced lucid dreamers may find this interesting as well. I have no idea how experienced you are, but as you see above you didn't understand the advantage of combining two methods at first go. And it only takes very little additional effort to actually practice those two at once. What also is often underrated is the importance of preliminary sleep. Here is what Mr. Monroe wrote about it in his book "Far Journeys":

My deliberate inducement of the second state also became tedious because I had found a simpler way to achieve it. I would wake up after two or possibly three sleep cycles, or approximately after three or four hours, and find myself already relaxed physically, rested, and completely wide awake. In that state, I found it ridiculously easy to "unhook" and flow freely out of the body.

Pointing those new to lucid dreamers to the tutorials where they can understand individual techniques, then experiment and apply them themselves will do more help than combining techniques and furthering confusion. Sorry.