Quote Originally Posted by WinRic View Post
I think most people try it because it sounds easier and faster. All you have to do is wake up in the middle of the night, lay still for 20 minutes, and then wait.
While with DILDing you have more work all throughout the day, and it takes a long time to get good at (then you also have to try MILD with it, which adds more work)

All I tried after learning to recall dreams were WILDs because I wanted instant results (and never got fully through SP, only the start of it)

No success with WILDs made me quit for at least a month, then I threw on a watch and started using it for easy RCs and I'm now at about 1-2 lucids a month and improving.
The key words in your post were that it "sounds easier and faster," even though it is not. Think about it -- doing a WILD is pretty much doing an impossible thing: you've got to stay wake while your entire body is struggling to put you to sleep. DILD and MILD do not have that problem, and have the added bonus of disciplining your waking awareness to be more ready when the LD actually happens. So they're easier and more effective. In fact the mental discipline required to WILD takes far more time to master than the "extra work" that you have to do for DILD and MILD.