Thread: Different kinds of lucid dreams

WILDs and DILDs are both just "how you get into the lucid dream", and as far as I know, they don't differ in quality of the Lucid Dream. For pros and cons, it completely depends on you, and your lifestyle. I recommend You should try both, and most of us use both to achieve lucidity. There are some other methods too around these forums, but these two are the main.

WILD and DILD aren't really methods, but describe the type of lucid dream. They categorize the lucid dream based on the way/time that lucidity was accomplished.

A Wake Induced Lucid Dream, or WILD, is a lucid dream where you lay down to go to sleep and manage to keep conscious and mentally awake while your body falls asleep and you begin dreaming. So, from the get-go, from being awake, you consciously enter a lucid dream. There are a few different techniques to accomplish this. WILD by paying attention to mental tasks (counting, thinking, whatever), WILD by paying attention to your body (usually people use SP to accomplish this sort of WILD), VILD (Visualizing something while you WILD), HIT (Hypnagogic Imagery Technique, as you're falling asleep you will see some small hallucinations called hypnagogic hallucinations, and focusing on these will let them turn into a dream). There is also DEILD, but this doesn't refer to a specific induction technique, but again timing. A DEILD is a WILD that you accomplish immediately upon waking from a dream. Basically, you wake up from a dream and immediately attempt to WILD using whichever WILD technique you prefer. Timing your WILD like this (instead of waking up in the middle of the night or trying when you first go to bed) makes it a DEILD.

Dream Induced Lucid Dreams, or DILDs, are lucid dreams where you become lucid while the dream is already in progress. You're already totally asleep, in the dream world, surrounded by dream things, and you manage to wake your mind up enough during the dream to realize that you're dreaming. Any lucid dream in which lucidity is gained DURING the dream is a DILD. Specific techniques to do this include increasing your awareness during the day, reality checking to dreamsigns, by habitual reality checking (doing it enough during the day that you randomly do it in a dream and find you're dreaming), the MILD technique (relies on prospective memory, your ability to remember to remember to do something), autosuggestion (simply telling yourself you'll become lucid), or the EILD technique- the externally induced lucid dream, where you use something from the real world to somehow cue you while you're dreaming to tell you that you're asleep- something like playing an audio file that says "You are dreaming, reality check!" and when you hear it you will reality check and find you ARE dreaming.

Here are the tutorials:


DILD
RC
MILD
EILD

WILD
VILD
DEILD
HIT
Twin Bodies/One Body
SP

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I also recommend these to find out what sort of lucid dream you should try to induce.
WILD or DILD?
What Kind of DILD?

Yes, thank you for correcting me. You are always very detailed, and exact.