MILD works by building up your ability to remember to ask yourself if you're dreaming. During a non-lucid dream.
Thus, it's a DILD method.
One way to strengthen your ability to remember is to visualize your past dreams and practice recognizing dreamsigns and reality checking (mnemonic, MILD)
One way to increase your chance of lucid dreaming is to WBTB.
One way to 'get into SP' is to lay in bed and keep your mind awake while your body falls asleep.
One way to enter a lucid dream is to VILD.
If you just woke up from a dream, remembering/recording it helps you to DILD, and this is of course a great time to do those practice visualizations. However, this visualizing in the middle of the night isn't the essence of the MILD exercise (visualizing to help you memorize is, but not necessarily in the middle of the night with the intention for it to turn into a WILD). These are just a way to help set your intention to remember.
If you happen to fall asleep while doing these visualizations and you enter a dream, you will have just VILDed. Unless you tried to move at some point while still awake and were incapable of movement, you cannot know whether or not you were in SP.
If you happen to end up in SP, you have just ended up in SP.
If you fall asleep, and in the middle of a nonlucid dream you remembered to RC to a dreamsign or to question things around you, you have just MILDed.
So: One doesn't attempt to MILD in the way that one actively attempts to WILD. Attempting a MILD means putting in effort to try to form that memory, that mental connection, and then going to sleep. If you end up in SP while laying in bed visualizing for your MILD, it is the same as if you had gotten into SP while attempting a VILD or if you were laying in bed thinking and ended up in SP, or were laying in bed and ended up in SP.
Obviously, waking up from a dream, recording it in your dg, going over missed dreamsign opportunities, getting in bed, composing your body in an attempt to get into SP, and then visualizing your past dream in order to set your intention and also VILD is the ideal way to go about this. If you're really lucky, you'll slip straight into a VILD. If you're almost that lucky, you'll find yourself in SP and have to 'manually' will yourself to transition into a dream. If you're lucky and your hard work pays off, you'll fall asleep normally but will realize in the midst of your next dream that you're dreaming and thus have a MILD. And if you're unlucky, you will just snooze the night away.
But yea. Combine techniques and go all out.
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