Quote Originally Posted by DreamOfBeams View Post
So if I tell myself alot of times before I go to sleep. "When I wake up I will be dreaming" and then dream and remember what I sed and look for signs that I am dreaming I will have all of a sudden gained the ability to control these dreams.
No, that's MILD. DILD is when you recognize dream signs or anomalies in the environment or dream world. When you see something and think (eg) "Hey, bottles can't dance. I must be dreaming", that's a DILD.

Also once your in a DILD can you wake your self up like you can in a WILD?
Yes. All lucid dreams have the same potential. The main difference is in the way they are triggered or, "initiated".