Dream Initiated Lucid Dream, popularly termed as DILD, signifies a type of lucid dreaming where the dreamer consciously realizes they’re dreaming while inside a dream.
Unlike other lucid dreaming techniques where the intent originates from the waking state, DILD occurs spontaneously during dreams.
The dreamer typically becomes aware due to cues or clues within the dream that highlight its unreality, challenging logic or physical laws, ultimately prompting lucidity.
How to get started with DILD
Embarking on the journey of DILD begins with an open mind and mental readiness. The magic of DILD relies heavily on self-awareness, observation skills, and an element of spontaneity.
The path to achieving mastery in this realm requires consistency, patience, and most importantly, a heightened recollection of dreams. This guide will walk you through the necessary steps that form the backbone of initiating a Dream Initiated Lucid Dream.
Step 1: Increased Dream Recall
The DILD technique hinges on reinforcing your dream memory. Establish the daily practice of keeping a dream journal, writing down as much detail as you can recall upon waking up.
Over time, this exercise stimulates an enhanced awareness of your dreams’ pattern, texture, and subtleties, thus programming your mind to recall and recognize your dream world.
Step 2: Reality Checks
The effectiveness of DILD relies on the permeation of reality checks in your dreams. You need to form the habit of conducting reality checks routinely during your waking hours, for this practice to make it into your dreams.
This could include actions like counting fingers, probing if you can breathe with a shut nose, or checking the time.
In dreams, these activities often yield unusual results, alerting your mind to the dream state.
Step 3: Inducing Lucidity Through Dream Signs
Dream signs are unique or recurring themes that appear predominantly in your dreams. They play a vital role in DILD, acting as triggers to lucidity. Identifying and acknowledging your unique dream signs, coupled with reality checks, significantly increases your chances of realizing that you’re dreaming.
Step 4: Meditation and Mindfulness
Developing a lucid mind is inherently tied to mindfulness and meditation. By practicing mindful moments during your waking hours you encourage this sense of awareness to translate into your dream world.
Related Techniques
- Wake Initiated Lucid Dream (WILD) – This technique involves transitioning from the awake state directly into a dream state with no loss of consciousness. It presents a stark contrast to DILD as the lucidity is initiated from wakefulness rather than within the dream.
- Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (MILD) – This method uses prospective memory, intending to remember to recognize that one is dreaming. Repeating a mantra, like “Next time I dream, I will realize I’m dreaming”, is a key component of MILD, and this declarative intent could enhance DILD occurrences.
- Wake Back to Bed (WBTB) – This involves waking up after a few hours of sleep and then going back to bed after some time, increasing the likelihood of entering REM sleep wherein lucid dreams are more likely. WBTB can often be combined with DILD by implementing reality checks upon waking and before falling back asleep.
Getting started with DILD tonight
If you’re eager to inaugurate your voyage into DILD, start by priming your mind for elevated dream recall.
Maintain a dream journal beside your bed tonight, preparing to jot down any dreams immediately after waking. Initiate the practice of routine reality checks throughout the day.
Lay the mental groundwork for heightened mindfulness, lighting the path towards your first Dream Initiated Lucid Dream.
Like any craft, mastery in DILD requires patience, consistency, and open receptivity to your subconscious.
