Hey there,

I'm going to contradict previous posters. Although the contradiction is purely on the level of definition. What they said holds a lot of truth. its just that I do believe we need to get our definitions straight to ensure we talk about the same kinds of things.

So, with that in mind:

Neither WILD or DILD is a technique or method. WILDS and DILDS are a type of dream. WILD is a wake initiated Lucid Dream, DILD is a Dream initiated lucid dream.

Now to confirm what the others said. There's methods of inducing DILDS, just as there are methods of inducing WILDS. Some of the methods for inducing DILDS even overlap to a degree with those for inducing WILDS.

Several of the more common ones:

- Teaching yourself to recognise dreamsigns
- Teaching yourself to do consistent reality checks (for instance once every hour, whether asleep or awake)
- Mnemonic suggestions before going to bed ("I will have a lucid dream tonight")
- Subconscious suggestions via various software or induction devices such as the novadreamers
- Usage of external medicae/foodstuff/vitamins/drugs
- ...

Some of these "methods" have "methods" of their own on how to achieve them. For instance teaching yourself to recognise dreamsign has its own seperate methods on how to do that (try to be more aware during the day, try to look for oddities during the day or elements that you know you often dream about, etc etc).

So yeah, just like for WILDs, there's many methods on how to induce DILDS

On the other hand, both WILDS and DILDs can spontaniously on their own, without using a method. For some people this happens with such consistency that we call them "natural" lucid dreamers. Although most people need to use methods and techniques to get any degree of consistency in incuding DILDs or WILDs.

Hope that clarifies things,

-Redrivertears-