Originally Posted by
FryingMan
I tend to belong to this camp of thought on SSILD, not entirely, but most of the way. If you're awake, intending to lucid dream, and can hang your awareness somewhere so you can do this while you return to sleep, well that's great. Even if that's all that SSILD is, a particular mental anchor, then it's still something useful! In the end, does it really matter that "SSILD works" or not as long as the end result is lucidity?
At the very least, it's a concrete series of steps to place your awareness while falling back to sleep intending to lucid dream.