what am i doing wrong?

**HatsuneMiku01** · 08-04-2012 05:35 PM

last night i gave MILD another shot. i was going to listen to binaural beats to fall asleep easier but i locked my ipod and cant remember the code.. plus i wouldnt have been able to download any.

so i went to bed repeating my mantra to myself mentally in time to my breathing. after a while i started thinking it after every second breath and so on until i fell asleep. (the mantra i was using was "i will realize im dreaming")

when i woke up in the morning i remembered having a dream that i got an iphone and i was trying to get binaural beats on it so i could have lucid dreams. -_-

im wondering if this is because my mantra was saying I WILL instead of I AM. should i use a diff

**fennecgirl** · 08-04-2012 05:48 PM

Using a mantra in the present tense is generally considered to be more effective. However, even that isn't 100% effective. MILD simply helps increase the chance of becoming lucid. In my opinion, reality checks are more important; RCs during the day combined with MILD at night should be more effective than just MILD.

**SpaceCowboyDave** · 08-04-2012 06:15 PM

Like fennecgirl said, MILD isn't going to always work by any means. Pertaining to the mantra, I have used I AM in the past and it has worked for me. I think they both can work, but I would use I AM.

**LDreamerZERO4** · 08-04-2012 06:15 PM

I would consider repeating a shorter and more meaningful mantra like "I will Lucid Dream". I can never say long mantras for a while. They end up going from "I will Lucid Dream" to "I'll Loopid" and forget what I'm repeatedly saying, so I created a word I go by OGHO(Oh-Go) which defined is :To Lucid Dream or Astral Project at will.