Originally Posted by
Sageous
^^ You might be giving all this too much thought, Louai...
Actually, you sort of do have a little light in there saying you are dreaming: you.
In a sense there is no such thing, literally, as prospective memory; you're simply remembering to do something, using the same tools of cognition and memory that you use for "standard" memory. The term is simply something the psychologists came up with to describe one way we access memory (or a behavior, I guess). The cues that trigger prospective memory can be anything, including, yes, events in dreams (like dream signs, or "odd" things). There is no mental subroutine that says, "Hey, Louai is dreaming now, so I'd better tell him so," but rather by doing MILD you're building a scenario that helps you become more likely to notice (remember) that you are dreaming during the dream. To try to build a technical framework around that scenario might possibly be counterproductive, because in the end you're grabbing at air. And no, I do not believe you can set a prospective memory "alarm clock" to go off during the dream; it just doesn't work that way.
The interesting thing about MILD, to me, is that it isn't so much creating some prospective memory cue as it is planting a seed of self-awareness into your dream -- a little memory, or subtle undercurrent, of "you," as it were. This is my opinion, and I could certainly be wrong, but all this technical talk about things like time-based prospective memory are just that: talk. Do your MILD, be confident you will LD, and you will remember to remember.
So yeah, you might find yourself ahead of the game if you just "think this might be a thing that just works, and we don't know why yet, but it does," and don't worry about it.
That's excellent -- and more reason to not give too much attention to the technical minutiae/bullshit about what makes this stuff work!