The MILD Challenge
Vickie Acklin Hypnosis, Lucid Dreaming Lucid Dreaming, MILD Technique, Mnemonic Induction, Stephen LaBerge
I have had lucid dreams, just as most of us have, but I have never practiced a lucid dreaming technique until recently. I stumbled on an interesting article explaining a very simple method called The Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (MILD), originally developed in the 1970s by the American psychophysiologist, Stephen LaBerge.
For the last week or so I have been doing the steps outlined in LaBerge’s, MILD technique. The technique is very simple and easy to follow. It involves setting an alarm, waking up, repeating a mantra in your mind, then quickly going back to sleep and keeping a daily lucid dreaming journal.
In a study done with 169 people using the MILD technique for lucid dreaming, researchers found that the number of times that people repeated the mantra, or even the amount of time spent on the MILD technique overall, did not predict success with lucid dreaming. Instead, the most important factor, was to complete the MILD steps, after the alarm interrupts the sleep cycle, then be able to go back to sleep quickly. MILD proved almost twice as effective when people fell back asleep within five minutes after setting their intention.
I’ve never been a person that can fall fast asleep in five minutes. I have to actively clear my mind and spend some time just being quiet with myself. Sometimes it takes me a while to reach that inner quiet but the MILD technique works twice as well when one can go back to sleep very quickly. Within five minutes to be exact. I know people that have the incredible ability to be able to go to sleep quickly but I needed a tool.
To help me fall asleep very quickly, I designed a 20 minute audio, Sleep Easy, with no binaural beats. Low sound frequencies in the delta range are blended to deeply relax and tune the brain to ideal states of consciousness for falling asleep very quickly. The audio is 20 minute with no vocals.
The MILD technique will work very well with no audio at all but if you need something to relax you down very quickly try, Sleep Easy.
Take the MILD Challenge! Follow the easy steps and begin experiencing Lucid Dreams!
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April 29, 2021 @ 8:48 am
Last night I had such a fun lucid dream. I was able to go to sleep very quickly and my alarm went off at 5am. I woke up and repeated the steps for the MILD technique, put my sleep headphones on and had no trouble going right back to sleep. I did use the Sleep Easy audio because it really helps me to relax and go to sleep very quickly.
In my dream I won a bright red 1969 Mustang Coupe in a contest. I was excited to drive it because I knew it was a very special car that could fly. When I got in the driver’s seat and put my hands on the wheel, I suddenly knew without doubt that I was dreaming once I saw my hands. I use my hands as my reality check in lucid dreaming and it works very well. All day in my conscious reality I tell myself that I am awake every single time I see my hands. I’m programming myself to realize that I am awake when I see my hands. When I see my hands in a dream, I know I am awake.
Using my hands in lucid dreaming has worked very well the next morning too. As soon as I wake up in next morning, I write every single thing I experienced (what I saw, heard, smelled, felt, everything!) in my journal. As soon as I see my hand holding my pen and writing in my journal it brings back a flood of memories from my lucid dream.
The MILD technique really works!
May 4, 2021 @ 2:36 pm
I became lucid in a dream when I saw my hands mixing something in a white plastic bowl one night. I could only stay lucid a few minutes and that’s the part of the dream I woke up for. Mixing the contents of a white plastic bowl.
The mixing of that bowl seems to be prophetic for me right now as some big changes have come into my life today. Time to mix things up and make some changes…