Thread: A new method (DILD+MILD)

Originally Posted by Caradon

Isn't this basically the same thing as trying to get yourself to do a random RC in a dream?

I can see how your technique could work, but why not just RC? How does rubbing hands and RCing together, work better?

Rubbing of the hands stabilizes the dream.

Originally Posted by hellohihello

Rubbing of the hands stabilizes the dream.

Well that's arguable. It may help some people, but it's never really done anything for me. My dreams always seem pretty stable until I wake up.

But that's not really the point. It sounds to me like he is saying to rub hands as a technique to attain Lucidity, not stabilize it. That's what I'm asking about. What's the difference? Your still just training yourself to randomly do an action in your dream that will cause you to become Lucid. Like RC.

Yea, it sounds like you'll be putting in a lot of effort that is unnecessary with the hand rubbing, not to mention this is hardly a new technique. If you just focus on the dreamsigns you already have for RCing, and build up mnemonic memory for MILD, you should be good to go.

Stabilizing a dream does help, but I just built it into my exercises for prospective memory by remembering to RC, RCing, and then immediately 'stabilizing' (going through the motions in RL) and listing my dream goals. Every lucid I've had since I started (which is about 7 or so??) I immediately told myself "Stabilize the dream! What are my dream signs?".

Type 2 kind of just sounds like an improvement of Type 1.

I can see how this would work though but I don't know if I would call it a technique. For me, I think MILD just sounds like a branch off of DILD.

Originally Posted by lucidspark64

For me, I think MILD just sounds like a branch off of DILD.

MILD is just a way to induce a DILD. Remember to notice your dreaming.
I've never understood the point of the two separate definitions either.

Except for maybe naturals who can DILD without trying to make themselves remember to do it.

DILD encompasses any and all lucid dreams in which lucidity is attained once the dream has already been in progress (versus WILD, where you remain conscious the whole time as the dream begins).

RCs give you DILDs, you can have spontaneous DILDs, and then there's the MILD... which relies on your ability to remember to reality check to certain things and to ask yourself if you're dreaming in order to induce a DILD.

So if you're walking along and say "Man, I haven't RCed in a while I know I should. OH! I'm dreaming!" that would be a DILD from a random RC
If you suspect you are dreaming, and then test it out using reality checks, and say "OH! I'm dreaming!" that would be a DILD from a true reality testing reality check
If you suddenly realize, out of the blue or in response to something strange or frightening, "Oh jeez I must be dreaming!" without even RCing that's what I call a spontaneous lucid.
If you see a dream sign and say, "Oh, one of my dreamsigns. I am supposed to reality check." or "Oh, a person. I was supposed to reality check the next time I saw a person." and you become lucid, that would be a DILD through the use of your prospective memory, which would make it a MILD. Basically, remembering to reality check in response to a cue.

The thing is... yes, these lines all blur. Which is why in my signature there is just DILD and WILD.

MILD isn't a branch of anything. It's just one way in which you can induce a DILD, and its reliance upon good prospective memory has earned it the name MILD. If you really wanted you could call spontaneous DILDs SDILDs, and RC-induced DILDS RCDILDs. But then I'd have to kill you.

I don't ever have a spontaneous DILD unless I'm actively working at making myself remember to notice I'm dreaming. Therefore, it's all MILD to me.

Even a random RC is a result of making myself remember to do it in a dream.

Recognition of any random, or common dreamsign, is also a result of making myself remember to recognize them.

Recognizing something strange or frightening and saying, "Oh I'm dreamaing!" isn't spontaneous Lucidity.

Becoming Lucid without noticing anything at all is spontaneous Lucidity.