Thread: Multiple Induction Technique (MIT)

Excellent tutorial, Burke, and indeed a valuable concept -- having a full LD'ing toolbox -- that ought to be repeated more often.

I just have one nit-picky little thing that I try to mention every time I notice it -- I'm sure everybody appreciates that! :

DILD and WILD/DEILD are not techniques, but rather descriptions of the state of mind that accompanies the transition from wake to sleep in each. MILD is actually the only true technique of the three, which is one reason it works so well with any version of transition. I used to argue that WBTB is also not a technique, but part of a greater process, but I've been having second thoughts about that.

So:

WILD = Wake Initiated Lucid Dream, meaning that you never lose track of your waking-life self-awareness during the transition from wake to sleep to dream.

DILD = Dream Initiated Lucid dream, meaning that you become aware that you are dreaming during the dream.

DEILD = Dream Exit Initiated Lucid Dream, meaning that you maintain self-awareness as you wake from a LD (or exit a NLD and remember you were dreaming) during the brief transition from dream to wakefulness and back to sleep.

MILD = Mnemonically Induced Lucid Dream, is as you listed, though I would leave off the mantra bit (a mantra is important in setting intention, but it is not the whole thing).

Though this might sound like a small thing -- and DV's Dictionary even uses "induced" rather than "initiated," so it's totally excusable -- I think it is worth mentioning here, because it goes to your point that many techniques can be used to induce DILD's and WILD/DEILD's, and whether you have a WILD or a DILD ought to be based more on timing or circumstance than on whether you solely practice techniques that bring you to one or the other... but the techniques are how you get to WILD/DEILD and DILD, and not WILD/DEILD and DILD themselves -- they are states of mind. Also, this is not a semantics exercise, as there is a deep difference between the words "induced" and "initiated."

Other than that, great tutorial! I hope you don't mind my bizarre need to get the definitions right, and of course I hope you'll forgive my intrusion.

[EDIT: Forgot to mention that these definitions are from EWOLD, not just the top of my head.]