i have laberge's book and am about half way through it. studying the MILD method has left me with a few questions about it. Since laberge says the first step is to "resolve to wake and recall dreams throughout the night before going to bed", does focusing on this fact before going to bed make it impossible to have a lucid dream in the first REM cycle(s) since you are not focusing on waking up but merely recalling dreams? If so, Is MILD geared more to having lucid dreams in the later REM cycles? Interestingly, step 3 in the MILD process is to say to yourself as your going back asleep, having woken up via alarm and recorded your previous dream; "Next time i am dreaming, i want to remember i am dreaming", narrowing your thoughts to only this idea. Would'nt this again mean that using this process it was not possible to have a lucid dream in the first REM cycle as you are not telling youself to wakeup, but merely to record dream details in the first REM cycle?

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