Thread: How long did it take you to have your first LD?

kamenriderbaron, falling back asleep should have priority over the WILD (whatever version you're doing, e.g. FILD) - so essentially if you see that the attempt doesn't lead anywhere, just relax and fall asleep. Any form of WILD is first and foremost about falling asleep successfully. About being relaxed - at what point of the FILD are you stressed? If from the beginning, try a relaxation technique and / or shorten the duration between waking up and the start of doing the FILD (I'm assuming you're doing FILD with previous sleep... If not, "well, here's your problem"). But if the hypnagogic sensations (imagery, hallucinations, etc) tense you up, then you should stop paying attention to them as much, or try to be more on the sleepy side and focus less on maintaining awareness and keeping track of the finger... In FILD and other wake inducing techs, you need to find the balance between awareness and sleepiness - so you might need to sacrifice some of the awareness to fall asleep.

About MILD - for how long did you try it, and what was your MILD routine exactly? As Sensei and RelaxAndDream (and I) already said, the quickest progress is by mostly focusing on "day work" (to induce DILDs) and WILDs are something more supplementary. For example, I do some kind of personalized combo of awareness/RCs/MILD as my day work apart from the journaling. Out of 12-7 LDs per month which is my current rate (after starting practicing in Dec 2015), at least 80% of them are DILDs.

A disclaimer - since I learned and "borrowed" so much from Sensei's method over my years of lurking around DV, I'm not sure if I can add anything to what he said Anyway, just read his reply... I also at first tried to speed things up by only using WILDs because it sounds like the easy way out. But as Sensei wrote, WILDs on their own don't yield much consistency and are harder to pull off, and even if you do get lucid using a WILD (e.g. FILD), I don't know how prolonged or vivid a lucid dream is going to be without practicing any "day work" (the basics).