Thread: WILD - Wake Initiated Lucid Dream

^^ I know you addressed these to FryingMan, and his answer will probably be enough, but here are a couple of thoughts you might consider:

First, I believe that it would be very difficult to impossible to DEILD from an alarm clock; the alarm simply wakes you up too much, and separates you from the dream you were just in. In a sense, using an alarm tends to negate the possibility to DEILD, because it erases the dreamy mindset you must have in order to go immediately back to sleep and return to your dream.

For that matter, in my opinion it is best to avoid using an alarm for WILD as well, also because the alarm can trigger too many of your brain's "wake-up" circuits and thus reduce your chance of maintaining a dreamy state during WBTB.

Also:

isn't it true that DILD and WILD are actually types of lucid dreams, and thus in their case the ILD means "Induced Lucid Dream", while DEILD, WBTB (being a non ILD), VILD, MILD and some others are actually techniques, hence their ILD means "Induction of Lucid Dreaming"?

No, it isn't true; not completely, anyway.

DEILD is actually a form of WILD, and, with DILD, all three are the names given to the two possible transitions to a LD. In other words, they are terms used to describe how your LD started: WILD/DEILD represent the transition from wake to sleep to dream without losing waking-life self-awareness, while DILD represents the transition from non-lucidity to lucidity during the dream. The "I" in all three, BTW, stands for "Initiated," and not "Induced:"

WILD = Wake Initiated Lucid Dream
DEILD = Dream Exit Initiated Lucid dream
DILD = Dream Initiated Lucid Dream

So: yes, they are all types of LD's (or at least how the LD originated), but DEILD is a form of WILD, and none are induced, but rather initiated.

The other major or original "ILD" (from LaBerge's work), MILD, is the only one where the "I" does stand for "Induced:"

MILD = Mnemonically Induced Lucid Dream

And, though it has that "ILD" in it, MILD is a technique, and not transition descriptor.

Finally, as you've already guessed by now, DEILD is not a technique, but the name for the transition itself.