Rapid Fire MILD Technique for Lucid Dreaming
Program your mind with 12 Dreamsigns (Guided Exercise)
Most people practice MILD (Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams) with a recent dream, just one. In Rapid Fire MILD you rehearse a whole run of dreamsigns instead: the setting, something changing form or disappearing, an odd action, something dreamlike in your emotions or thoughts. Each time you go from non-lucid, to noticing the dreamsign, to aha, this is a dream.
I love it because it's not just my last dream. I'm anticipating the dreamsigns I'll have tonight.
This guided session comes from my Lucid Dreaming Practice Group. Watch the guided practice on YouTube, and tell me in the comments which dreamsigns felt familiar.
What is MILD?
MILD (Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams) was developed by Dr. Stephen LaBerge. Remember the steps with the three R's:
Rescript: use a recent dream and choose how you will rescript the dream as if you recognized a dreamsign, and what you would do after you became lucid.
Rehearse: vividly picture yourself back in that dream, imagining yourself noticing the dreamsign, becoming lucid, and how the rest of the dream will go.
Remind: set the intention, "Next time I encounter a dreamsign, I'll remember I'm dreaming," as you fall back asleep.
What makes Rapid Fire MILD different?
Classic MILD revisualizes one dream to strengthen your memory associations between dream cues and lucidity.
Rapid Fire MILD is my variation: you anticipate many different kinds of dreamsigns, the common ones that tend to show up in your dreams, and rehearse getting lucid with each one in quick succession. They don't have to be recurring dreamsigns. The point is to practice with a variety, so your mind is primed for whatever shows up tonight.
For best results, try it before bed or during brief awakenings in the night. But really, you can do it anytime of day. In fact, I encourage periodically reminding yourself to notice dreamsigns at least a few times a day.
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