Wbtb, Mild, Wild...

[Silence Dogood]

What's the difference between all of these? It seems like all of them simply involve consciously entering a dream, telling yourself to be lucid...

[Unelias]

Have you read the tutorials : >

[Silence Dogood]

Yes, I mean, I know the fine details between the three of them are different -- but it feels like all three of them involve consciously inducing a dream, and I really don't feel like there is substantial difference between the three.

[Ryuinfinity]

WILD is a conscious transition transition between waking life and a dream. DILD is a dream in which you realize you are dreaming. WBTB is not even a technique. Just a way to help the other two. MILD is a kind of DILD.

[Brandon Heat]

Your right they are are the same and yet different if that's what you are looking for. Different ways to accomplish the same thing.

[Unelias]

but it feels like all three of them involve consciously inducing a dream, Well lucid dreaming *is* conscious dreaming, but WILD is only one, as said here before, where you remain conscious during the whole technique

[Tarsier]

Any LD which you enter consciously (wake initiated) is a WILD. It doesn't matter what technique you use.

[Shift]

WILD: any lucid dream where you lay down, keep your mind awake, and consciously enter the lucid dream DILD: any lucid dream in which you become lucid while the dream is already in progress As a subset to these: MILD: involving telling yourself to REMEMBER to do your dreamsigns, and hinges on the notion that parts of your mind responsible for remembering these tasks will remain activated even while you are asleep, cluing you in to recognize dream signs and do a reality check. So, a DILD method. DEILD: a very time-oriented WILD method, in which you wake up from a dream and attempt to keep your body still, tricking your body into thinking that you are still asleep and to continue on in a REM period, letting you WILD with relative ease. WBTB: this is nothing. It is literally waking up, staying up for a little while, and then going back to sleep. When you go back to sleep you just go to sleep like a normal person, you can try to WILD, or you can use a DILD specific technique (like autosuggestion or MILD), and in the vein of a DILD you can attempt to focus so much on lucid dreaming during the awakening that you are able to incubate a dream about lucid dreaming/your dreamsigns, which will cause you to become lucid during the dream. I'd suggest reviewing some of those details, a lot of people mix these up and then spread that confusion about.

[marcher22]

WBTB is just waking up at night staying awake for a bit then going back to fall asleep. You see if you do that it's going to be easier for you to realize that your dreaming ( which is a DILD). MILD is pretty much the same as DILD, infact it probably branches off DILD. You just make a mantra and keep repeating it so then in your dream you may think of your mantra and then BANG you realize your dreaming. The WILD technique also works best with WBTB. You just get up out of bed, spend any where from 10 mins - 2 1/2 hours ( i've used 2 hours before and it's worked) and then lie down on your bed, close your eyes and relax. You'll then enter a dream but the time it takes may vary. Any technique you are doing i would suggest to use WBTB with it, as it is easier and apparently if all goes well there is a 60% chance of you getting lucid. for me out of trying this 5 times. 4 Times actually worked ^^ which is pretty sweet. Hope i Helped. and yes there are many other techniques, but some of them work best for different types of people. You just have to experiment. When i first thought of the WBTB method i thought it would be stupid because i didnt want to get out of bed. So i thought just trying DILD on it's own or trying a WILD before i go to bed would be fine. It wasn't. I ended up tring the WBTB method and when i did it properly it worked! -Marcher 22