Does WILD lead to DILD?

[Berto]

If someone was able to consistently WILD, every single night say, would this awareness; the ability to recognise what a lucid dream feel like, make you more likely to have a DILD dream or would it have no effect? I ask because I plan to become a master in WILDing (lol) but I can't always fully commit to practising. If in some point in the future, I stopped WILDing (after 10 years of training WILD, for example) would I have regular DILDs? This is mainly hypothetical, related to some thoughts I've been having lately. What do you guys think? c:

[MasterMind]

It's not completely carved in stone, but let's use an analogy to answer this question. WILD - is focused awareness and DILD is general awareness of the now, well it's not exactly like this because for example DILDs can be induced if you for example go thorugh the WILD process, lose awareness for a few minutes but then retrieve it because your chance of being lucid is a little higher. But to look at the general idea of what the main idea about WILD and DILD is about it can kind of be like comparing: Short distance running to long distance running and your ability to run fast or for a long period time are two different skills. And it's sort of the same way for DILD and WILD, DILD is more intent oriented and WILD is more (focused) awareness oriented. So in other words (based on my general idea of the principle of DILD and WILD) by just practising your ability to focused awareness it is not safe assume that your ability to intend would increase as well. So regular DILDs would not be a guarantee. This is also mainly hypothetical of course.

[Zoth]

There's still some awareness required, in the sense that in a DILD (or WILD), you can still loose lucidity along the way. I don't think though you would need to pratice more than that though. DILDs are provoked by different factors when compared to WILDs (since lucidity comes during the dream), so you wouldn't have much of an advantage if you only relied in your WILDs to experience lucidity. At most, you would only have a better sense of being in a dream. Only long-term pratice would provide you the experience and the certainty to see if that's enough.

[dutchraptor]

Theoretically yes, with a sufficient amount of LD's you can learn how to recognize the dream world almost everynight. Of course it still requires ambition and intent to achieve, they will not just happen on their own completely. Eventually your brain will become used to idea of waking up in a dream whenever you want, it just takes a good schedule and consitent practise

[Berto]

Ah, thanks for the responses guys, I understand now. Like dutchraptor says though, would the experience of conditioning yourself to be consistently lucid make you more generally aware, rather than a focused awareness? One way of saying it, I suppose is like a habit, could you make being lucid into a habit? Either way, I'm going to be as consistent as I can and try to improve at getting lucid

[dutchraptor]

If you have the intent to then yes over time you will likely become a natural, if you are however just WILDing and do not care to remind yourself that you will recognize the dream state then it will not happen naturally.