Thread: Best Method to Focus on for a Newbie

Awareness coupled with MILD. Super easy (maybe no so the awareness) and also with practice (see Naiya) you can get an LD a night.

I suggest you start with the DILD/MILD area. Whilst you are doing this it would be a good idea to at least try to WILD a few times to see how it goes. You may end up lucky and find that WILDing is easy.

RC every time you walk through a door. really helps with awareness, and if it becomes a habit, likely will give you quite a few lucids.

Yeah, I'd definitely say to start with something like the DILD or MILD; they're fairly easy and a good place to gain some experience!

For beginners, definetly start with MILD/DILD. It doesn't require actual "Technique" like WILD does. But you will have to start doing RCs and increase your general awareness like others have said.

But attempting to WILD is perfectly fine also. Some people say that WILD is easier for them than DILD/MILD

WILD comes very naturally to some people, and could be your thing. Personally, I find SP to be too strange a feeling, plus I don't like getting up and detracting from my regular sleep, of which I already get too little of.

So, I predominantly use MILD, a touch of DILD, and increased awareness. I like this combination because it offers more certainty than any one method alone, plus they aren't incredibly difficult to do.

Everyone is different, and I recommend dedicating a few straight days and nights to trying out each of the processes, and then committing to one or two methods from there. If you find SP to be enjoyable and even easy, or if you wake up naturally during the night, WILD may be a better fit than MILD/DILD, and visa versa.

Thanks all very much for your replies!

It looks like I will begin with a focus on MILD/DILD once I have improved my dream recall. At the moment I am having a couple of issues with awareness and reality checks, though.

I work five days a week, 8:30-6 and for the most part I am flat out with customers and other tasks and for a lot of this it seems to be difficult to do a really conscious/aware reality check. I can briefly say to myself, "Am I dreaming? Nope" but I do it in such a casual way I don't think it would cause me to become aware enough - but I don't really have many chances to actually stop be aware of my surroundings and ask myself.

I did about 8 reality checks today during work today, I guess I will see how I can best work it in.

On a similar note - the whole awareness / increased awareness thing... I am having REAL trouble with this. There are a lot of good tutorials here - is there one on this? Or can anyone give me some tips?