am I Doing MILD right?

[n00bf0rlyf3]

When I go to bed I do Breath : 99 : Tonight I will have many lucid dreams and remember them Breath : 98 : Tonight I will have many lucid dreams and remember them until I hit 90 then I vision what i'll do and what will happen. Repeat for 89-80 and so on.

[zebrah]

That isn't the only way to MILD but yeah that's about right. Just let yourself fall asleep with your mantra as the last thing on your mind. It takes time and practice but if you can fall asleep with your mantra being your last thought you will be bound to have a lucid dream soon.

[n00bf0rlyf3]

Yeah I keep doing my mantra and within 10 minutes of still doing it I find myself asleep lol

[Erii]

that's a way of doing it, just keep it up~

[n00bf0rlyf3]

I will, I'm trying it once again tonight and hopefully I'll get lucky on my bday

[Bossalinni]

I would just like to recommend including VISUALIZATION with your mantras. Using mantras with visualizing is WAY more effective(I have an LD every night this way) Good idea to visualize would be either past Non-Lucid dreams but picture you doing reality checks and it actually working or even to imagine you Waking Life memories from that day, imagine your reality checks working and you becoming lucid Also I would do It everytime you wake at night. Good luck!

[Arch]

Just a note on visualisation, it might not be your think, it depends on the person. Some people prefer not to visualise whilst auto suggesting because they struggle to keep the image in their head ect. Sounds good to me by the way.

[Bossalinni]

Very true Arch. Actually visualization was never my thing either until I learned that our brains visualize and dream in the same area. Some people on the site recommended it and I had success with my mantras ever since (even though my visualizations are not very good). But I dont know how everyone else works. Mostly just some trial and error, untill you find out whats best for you. I just wanted to give a helpful suggestion

[n00bf0rlyf3]

Thank you everybody for tips, I am including visualization and have starting use Liquid Dream III and made my own Subliminal text to play for like 3 hours before I go to sleep and hopefully it will be burned into my head along with MILD and doing 1,000 reality checks in a day

[unda]

The majority on this forum seem to think MILD stands for Mantra Induced Lucid Dream. If you're just repeating a mantra then it's not MILD, it's just autosuggestion. LaBerge makes a distinction in Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming: "While using autosuggestion during the first sixteen months of my study ... I recalled an average of five lucid dreams per month with a range of one to thirteen ... With this new method (MILD), I had as many as four lucid dreams in one night and as many as twenty-six in one month." The key aspect of MILD is recalling a dream you've just awoken from and visualising yourself back in the dream becoming lucid. LaBerge also recommends continuing the fantasy and imagining what you would have done if you had become lucid, combining the visualisation with focusing your intent until you fall asleep. If you adjust what you have been doing to what LaBerge recommends then hopefully you'll see a drastic increase in the amount of lucid dreams you have!

[n00bf0rlyf3]

Ohh ok unda. So I'll just imagine a dream I had last night or 2 nights ago maybe and think myself becoming lucid and doing a RC? Oh, I'm such a retard I've been doing dang auto suggestion

[unda]

You could use a dream from another night but it would be better to use a dream you've just awoken from because you'll probably remember it more clearly. The first step of the technique is to set up dream recall by telling yourself you will remember your dream. The idea is to then go to sleep and wake up at a time of your choosing, for example after 6 hours of sleep, and then follow the steps I mentioned in my last post: The key aspect of MILD is recalling a dream you've just awoken from and visualising yourself back in the dream becoming lucid. LaBerge also recommends continuing the fantasy and imagining what you would have done if you had become lucid, combining the visualisation with focusing your intent until you fall asleep. If for some reason you wake up and can't remember the dream you've just awoken from then you'd have to use a previous dream for visualisation.

[n00bf0rlyf3]

ok ill try that ty