Thread: What happened? Post Your WILD Attempts, Good or Bad, Here

^^ I have another wrinkle to offer: Even after they become habit, your RC's still probably won't make you lucid.

Because access to memory (not to mention self-awareness) is unavailable, that RC habit might only result in your dreaming about doing a RC, and having it "prove" you are awake. There's a little secret about RC's they don't often talk about on the forums: RC's don't work until after you suspect you are lucid, not before: you cannot critically test your state with a RC until after you are self-aware/lucid enough to realize you might be dreaming, not before. Do a RC from habit during a NLD and you will likely not be made lucid from it.

And yet RC's remain very important to practice, because they allow you a chance, when barely lucid (you might only suspect you are dreaming), to take a moment and really firm up your lucidity. In other words, RC's might not be much help to make you lucid, but they are a great tool for confirming you are lucid -- for providing a clear answer to the question, "Am I dreaming?" when, during the dream, you feel a reason to ask it.

Given all that, I suggest that you don't dismiss DILD altogether. Though WILD has the advantage of sustaining your access to memory during the falling asleep process, DILD's can occur based purely on your interest (aka, expectation) in having a LD. So DILD's can occur in a seemingly spontaneous way, which is pretty advantagious in itself, and RC's are a great way to confirm that you're dreaming. So practice your WILD's, but always be ready and willing for a DILD to occur, because it just might!