To avoid confusions, let's just get one thing clear :
There's only 2 types of lucid dream induction:
- DILD (you get lucid in the dream);
- WILD (you are already lucid when starting the dream)
Now, you can attain an WILD with several techniques: with FILD, with SSILD, or most commonly, by simply laying there and waiting to fall asleep, paying attention to body sensations, meditating, noticing HH, using an anchor, visualization, DEILD, etc etc.
You can attain a DILD with many techniques as well: with a reality check (it works and you realize you're dreaming), through simple awareness (you find something odd in the dream, or become aware that you are not breathing, or realize that the person who you are talking to is dead), through MILD (you develop prospective memory to better remind yourself that you are dreaming in the middle of the dream), dream signs, EILD (using a device or a substance), and many other ways.
Now, there's only one method to WILD: you fall asleep and retain consciousness all the way into the dream itself.
There's also only one method to DILD: you become aware that you are dreaming while already being inside the dream itself.
Everything else: MILD, FILD, ADA, tholey's, visualization, reality checking, mantras, intention, DEILD, are all techniques to perform the same method: in WILD, to reach a dream while conscious, in DILD, to become lucid while dreaming. This is important, because most (if not all) techniques are based on the same principles: memory, awareness, and expectation. EILD might be the exception, but EILD is a whole different topic 
This is a rather important aspect of lucid dreaming you want to keep in your mind, otherwise you will just become an onironaut who claims (using an anology) that playing piano with your left hand or your right hand are 2 totally different things. They actually are nothing more than just 2 different ways to achieve the only method (playing the piano), and in essence, their roots are the same.
MILD refers to the use of prospective memory in order to remind yourself that you are dreaming. There are several ways to perform MILD: mantras, mnemonics and visualization being the most common ones. But technically, if you repeat 500 times during the day (I will remember that I'm dreaming whenever I dream about my work-place), and during a dream you shout "wait! I'm at my workplace, I need to do a reality check", you just achieved a DILD using MILD (you become lucid inside the dream using the prospective memory technique). You can see that many times is kinda hard to determine whether you achieved a DILD using MILD or ADA, or Tholey, or simple intention, or spontaneous reality checking, but that doesn't matter: your goal is the lucid, and practically all lucid dreamers combined several techniques/exercises in order to achieve lucidity
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