Thread: Darnit! :D

a DILD is when you go throughout the day doing reality tests (like the nose plug), and it carries over into your dreams, at which point you luck into reality checking and become lucid. A MILD is when you repeat a mantra over and over again in your head before sleeping, something like, "I will have a lucid dream," etc. This works well for me. DEILD is a bit fuzzy on my understanding, but as I see it, you wake up and fall asleep again very quickly, while just trying to "melt" into the dream you just had. I hope this helps!

Well, the repetition of "I will lucid dream" is an example of auto-suggestion. It can be used for many things. And it is not required for DILD, it just helps some people.

DILD is, as mario said, doing RCs throughout the day and that habit will reflect in your dream, therefore you do a RC in the dream (well, this is the most common way). This can take a while before you actually get a LD.


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As for the DEILD, this is how I do it:
I would wake up, I would not move at all, I would not open my eyes at all. I would start thinking to myself "I am dreaming, I am dreaming, I am dreaming".
At first you obviously won't actually be dreaming, but it is so that this thought carries over into the dream when you actually fall asleep. So by the time you ARE dreaming, you will still be saying to yourself "I am dreaming" and you will realise that you are now in a dream.

This all happens within 30 seconds. Sometimes a lot faster. It can be pretty darn quick.

Now, the problem with this is that it can be quite hard to remember not to move. So you end up moving, oh darn.

But when this happens, I myself would just end up falling back to sleep again for 1-2 hours and once I wake up, I tend to have remembered not to move, I don't know why, but I do, probably because it was so recently that I had thought about not moving.

Another problem is time. You can only really do it this way if you have time on your hands.
But a way to solve that is to have an alarm which will bleep like a couple of times. So set it to wake you up while you are in REM (basically 3 hours, 4.5 hours or 6 hours after you fall asleep. best go with 4.5) Then you can do the whole "I am dreaming" stuff while not moving.

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DILD tutorial

DEILD tutorial

Originally Posted by Mario92

a DILD is when you go throughout the day doing reality tests (like the nose plug), and it carries over into your dreams, at which point you luck into reality checking and become lucid. A MILD is when you repeat a mantra over and over again in your head before sleeping, something like, "I will have a lucid dream," etc. This works well for me. DEILD is a bit fuzzy on my understanding, but as I see it, you wake up and fall asleep again very quickly, while just trying to "melt" into the dream you just had. I hope this helps!

Think you've got all your definitions a bit wonky there!

A DILD is a TYPE of lucid dream, not a specific method, DILD stand for: dream initiated lucid dream. So any lucid dream in which you become lucid after the dream has already started. There are many methods for helping you become aware inside of a dream. Reality testing is one of the many methods to induce this TYPE of lucid dream.

a MILD is mnemonic induction of lucid dream, and is one specific method (so repeating a mantra is NOT MILD). MILD is a method of LaBerge, focused on prospective memory training. Remembering to do something in the future.
http://www.lucidity.com/LucidDreamingFAQ2.html#mild

DEILD. Is a Dream Exit induced lucid dream. Not a term i ever use, because i tend to consider DEILDs as just another term for a WILD.
Because to exit a dream, you have to wake up, and if you're awake (even if you are laying there with your eyes closed), then returning back to a dream would be a WILD, Wake Initiated Lucid Dream.

DEILD is really just another way of saying "Wake initiated lucid dreams can be easier to produce if you've just woken from a dream"