Thread: Tips for MILD and DEILD :)

Hello! Id like to start out by saying that i have been trying to lucid dream since a little over a year ago, i wasnt very inconsistent though and for the past few months i took a break completely from lucid dreaming and also dream journalling in general, and just over 2 weeks ago i jumped back into it with fresh motivation.

I decided to commit to the MILD technique, ive tried SSILD, WILD, FILD but none of them worked out for me and i wanted to try perfecting MILD over a long time period say 6 months minimum, as i know if i get this down ill succeed pretty well.
In the past few weeks, ive been trying MILD before i sleep initially and if im able to, upon WBTB, and ive yet to become lucid but im not giving up hope whatsoever, though i am struggling somewhat in the idea of maintaining the mantra up until the moment i fall asleep, as staying focussed on the mantra itself keeps me awake rather than helps me fall asleep, in order to sleep i have to let my thoughts go and not focus on any one thing.

Futhermore, over the past week, ive been noticing some near attempts at DEILD, where in the later stages of my sleep in the morning i notice that i awake briefly and get sucked into extremely loud vibrations, like a transition into dreaming, this happened last night also or rather in the morning, and i had read on dreamviews that one thing i could do is to stare at the backs of my eyelids and wait for hypagogia to form, and i tried this out but found that nothing happened, and eventually the vibrations stopped. Everytime ive gotten to the transition stage, this week and in the past, i can never quite complete the transition into the dream and wonder what am i doing wrong.

Side note, i am dream journalling as consistent as possible, making sure to write something down everyday, as short or as long as it is, and im also performing reality checks often, i struggle with rcs but in the past few days ive been making myself do them consistently around 10 to 15 times a day.

If anyone has any tips or words of wisdom to share itd be greatly appreciated