Thread: How Does MILD Work?

You mean like remember to recognize that I'm dreaming by remembering that a dreamsign=dream?
Sry Frying man, I didn't mean to put words into your mouth, but I'm confused how MILD makes you lucid. What confuses me is that : MILD is about giving spontaneous LDs? You just become lucid out of the blue? Yes or No plz

Originally Posted by LouaiB

You mean like remember to recognize that I'm dreaming by remembering that a dreamsign=dream?
Sry Frying man, I didn't mean to put words into your mouth, but I'm confused how MILD makes you lucid. What confuses me is that : MILD is about giving spontaneous LDs? You just become lucid out of the blue? Yes or No plz

You insist on asking for "yes or no" to a question that doesn't have a yes or no answer!

MILD is about inducing lucid dreams that start from within a dream, otherwise known as a DILD, PERIOD, that's all. I have personally experienced both what felt like spontaneous and slower awareness based on situation lucidity. At the time I was practicing many different techniques and practices recommended for inducing LDs (spending time during the day thinking about LDing, reading posts on DV, reading books on LDing, doing RCs, doing Tholey/LaBerge Reflection/Intention, SSILD, MILD, dream journaling, etc, etc, etc.), it is of course impossible to know precisely which ones (or the combination of which ones) produced the LDs.

The inventor of MILD (LaBerge) claims that it is prospective memory based, that you're "remembering" to recognize that you're dreaming. I think his claim should be taken with as much a grain of salt as anyone else's: we can't really know! To him, his *expectation* was that it was based on "remembering to recognize you're dreaming," so that's what worked for him. IMNSHO.

I think it is just as likely, if not more, that in fact the raised awareness and improved memory from doing prospective memory exercises, RCs, and the wakefulness boost that doing MILD visualizations during wakings, and the subconscious expectation built from doing this, is what produces the LDs, but of course I'm guessing just as much.