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I've been looking at Naiya's mild tutorial and it says that mild can be gery successful without reality checks or daytime awareness. Then I see other methods of mild and they say to do rcs and awareness. I'm a pretty forgetful person and trying to keep up with rcs during the day is hard, especially when I look like a retard when doing reality checks at school. Mum also thinks I'm on drugs.
Please help?
My personal observation is that it is possible to become lucid without doing any RCs, whereby you rely on an induction technique that is working for you. However, doing RCs would help increase the chance to have an ld. I would strongly recommend going for a WBTB and intending to have an ld when going back to sleep, you can use a mantra "I realize I am dreaming" or something similar to help you achieve lucidity. You can do this with MILD pre bed as well as with WBTB.
Also, ADA and RCs do not need to become a burden during the day. Ada is simply about acknowledging your surroundings, no need to stare as if something wrong is happening etc, just pay slightly more attention to things around you. As far as RCs are concerned, you can try to be creative and think of something that is not that obvious. Take a second to imagine you are flying, try telekinesis, if it works you are dreaming. Try to read something and see if it changes. Ask yourself where you are going and if it makes sense. Finally, don't forget to review your dream signs. If you see a vampire, a bear or maybe a famous actor, chances are you are dreaming. Hope that helps. Good luck! :)
I'm also a forgetful person :P I tried doing RCs every time I pass under a door, but I only remember it when I'm thinking about it, which is like... once a week. I have a nice set-up going now though. I wake up about once a night, and when I wake up then, it seems to be easier for me to remember the RC (mine is putting a finger through my palm), since I'm already thinking about sleep and just woke up from a dream. Doing that, I've gotten to the point that when I wake up in a dream and I'm in a bedroom, I immediately try for my RC. Now pretty much every dream I have that starts with me in a bed winds up being lucid.
You just have to find the best time for you to perform your check :) Think about your dreams and something that happens often in them, and then only do your RC when that specific thing happens. You don't have to do it randomly throughout the day, just get your brain to automatically know that "Hey, when this thing happens, I need to RC." It doesn't even have to be something that happens often in reality, as long as your mind equates it with your RC. Since I only wake up once at night (or at least, I'm only fully awake once a night), I only do one RC a day.
Yes, Jinxinator, you can certainly do MILD without daytime work. But it would work much better if you did that work.
Why? Because the daytime work (RC's, thinking about your dreams, keeping and reading a dream journal, planning your next LD, noting the odd, remembering dream signs, ADA, etc) represents your conscious effort to get your mind into LD'ing mode. Yes, you can go through the steps of MILD right at bedtime, and yes, there is a chance it might work. But there is a much better chance of it working if you did LD-related stuff during the day.
In short, the daytime work is what puts your mind in the right place for LD'ing. You might consider trying to keep it up even if it's hard....the best stuff is never easy!