I can't exactly remember the first MILD i had since I didn't categorize them when I first started, but this was one of my earliest MILDs.

I had been keeping up with my dream journal, questioning if I'm dreaming throughout the day, and at night I did my mantras.

The dream was quite short:

I was walking around inside a mall and I suddenly got the idea to stop and look around. The mantra I used before bed usually (during my early lucid dreaming days) was "Look around, it's a dream." so I just had that thought pop up and I stopped and stared at my surroundings and the colors were weird and distorted, like there was too much green and blue. I suddenly got lucid, proceeded to fly for a bit before losing lucidity.

I love MILD! Here are some tips that might help:

•Don't wait until you're too tired and sleepy to go to bed. Go to bed about 30 minutes earlier and just lay and do your mantras or recall your goals or visualize what you want. When you feel like sleepiness is taking over, do you mantras until you fall asleep. Don't try to stay up just to keep doing your mantras. The point in MILD is to fall asleep with your mantras as the last thing on your mind.

•Choose a short and meaningful mantra, something that reminds you clearly what you want to remember. It would probably be better to use a command as a mantra, like "do a reality check!" or something with some kind of strong emotion associated with it so it will be more powerful sort of, like "IT'S A DREAM!!" rather than "i'm dreaming".

•Don't be frustrated if the mantras doesn't work right away. Remember the mantra is just an aid, and it is not a magic potion that guarantees a lucid. It will take some time to get used to your mantra and to really let it bleed into your subconscious.

•Don't change mantras too often.

•When you get lucid, do mantras as well to help you stay grounded in your lucid mindset.

Hope this helps. Good luck! You can do it