First Steps to MILD (for all basic MILD related Q&A)

Yes that’s possible :slight_smile: But often it is more effective if you do it in the middle of the night, but it can give a good result when you try it at regular bedtime too. :content:

thanx Sandra! :smile: i will give it a try tonight!

ld411, yes, I suppose you could.
Just picture yourself getting lucid in a dream you had the night before. (having good dream recall works great if your doing this type of mild)

yea thats wat i was thinking Foley. Thanx!

I’m kinda confused about MILD. I tried doing it once, but all it led to was a very long, very weird, very vivid ND. I’m not sure how to do it. I did the three steps (remember, set your intent, visualize), but I had trouble staying focused. I found my thoughts straying and I found it difficult to visualize being lucid. I also wasn’t sure which I should do more: repeating “I will realize I’m dreaming” over and over again in my head, or visualizing. Can someone explain what I did wrong?

i tried MILD about 5 nights in a row and it still didnt work! And most ppl say that MILD works like after the 2nd night! plz help me out!

Just give it some time. Stressing over it will only lessen your chances of obtaining lucidity. You may also want to try considering moving on to other techniques if after a while you’re still lucidless. You could MILD while trying to visualize something (essentially a VILD). An example:

Go to sleep and repeat “The next time I dream, I will realize I’m dreaming”. After repeating it about 5 times, start to picture yourself flying a mile high in the sky with the earth and clouds zooming by you. Keep repeating while doing this. Try to induce senses, like feeling the wind blowing on you, or smelling fresh air. Keep repeating and visualizing until you drift away, or if you can’t sleep while doing those tasks, simply stop doing them after ten minutes or so and go to sleep with a faint intention of becoming lucid.

Try it out :smile:

thanx i will try it out :smile:

Yup, especially WBTB+VILD works good.

I have one question for you, when you’re repeating your mantra, do you do it when you’re in bed and fully awake. Or do you lay there for a while and wait until you’re about to lose conciousness/drift off then do it?

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I have no success in MILD but I think you would lay there for a while and wait until you’re about to lose consciousness/drift off to sleep then do it. Might be more effective.

yea i agree with kT4all

Can my MILD technique be this: i imagine myself flying and i say to myself, when i fly, ill be dreaming?

Just found some good information on Reality Checks. Some I knew, but others I did not so I thought I would post them somewhere on this site.

Breathing Can you breathe through a tightly shut nose?

If you’re swimming, can you breathe underwater?

Jumping When you jump, do you float back down?

Reading Do sentences change when you read them?

Read, turn away and repeat it to yourself, and then turn back and read it again. Do this twice.

Vision Do you have perfect vision? This only works for people who have at least slightly blurry vision in the waking world.

Hands Are your hands a strange colour, have too many fingers (sometimes they disappear and reappear when you try to count them!) or have other abnormalities?

Can you push your finger through your other hand?

Time Does your watch or clock tell a reasonable time? Are you even able to read the time off it? Sometimes clocks have the wrong number of hands or have strange symbols. Note: Digital clocks often work better for this reality check.

Powers Are you able to fly (just visualise it), unlock doors, or use other magical powers? Try to change the shape of your body, or walk through a wall, window, or mirror.

Light switches Does a light switch work?

Mirrors Do you look normal in a mirror?

Nose Can you see your nose with one eye closed?

Memory Are you able to remember how you got here, why you are here and what happened an hour ago? This is not always a reliable reality check!

Finger Stretching Are you able to elongate your finger by pulling on it? Body-image is malleable in the dream state, so this is quite reliable if you believe it will work. In the waking world you can pass it off as cracking a knuckle.

The best RC is holding your nose and trying to breath through it :grin: :grin:

Well i’ve been trying MILD and WILD for a few days now, and both give me results, not lucidity yet, but better recall than i had before.

My tech. is simply the “Im going to sleep now, im going to dream, when i wake-up i’ll remember my dream” for the MILD (i’ll go into WILD in the correct thread) and its improved my recall, but thats just about it

I was wondering if anyone has advice to improve the quality of my recall’s or to reach decent lucidity (for ex., should i think about a previous dream i had or no ?, etc)

Also, say i wanted to dream about something specific, any tips on how to achieve that ?

To get into a specific dream you would ‘daydream’ of what you wanted to be in and start doing RC in them and sooner or later it would turn into a dream. You would do this normally with the previous dream you had when your trying MILD+WBTB

Does the previous dream have to be the actual previous dream (say from the previous night) or can it be any previous dream ?

Just curious.

Well you could do any previous dream I suppose, but what I’m saying is that you go to sleep normally and you have a dream and then you wake up at like 3 AM and you do the dream that you just dreamed and you do that with MILD + WBTB

Sorry about the question if there was the answer, but I tried to find it. I tried MILD 4 times, I get LD only after 2nd try. If I will be training everyday, will results be better? I think that 25% chance for the beggining is pretty good, but I expect little more than 25% in the future. Will practice make my chances higher?