Today I'm going to share with you the most famous lucid dreaming technique
that nobody knows. If lucid dreaming techniques were people then this would be
Keanu Reeves. I just realized I don't know any famous people at all,
I'm so out of touch! So everyone knows its name, everyone thinks it's great,
and absolutely everyone is talking about it. And just like a famous person, everyone thinks
they know who they really are but in reality they're often misunderstood or misrepresented.
So the technique that everybody knows that nobody really understands, is called MILD or the Mnemonic
Induction of Lucid Dreams. So if you want to be one of those people who hasn't just heard
of MILD but actually understands it, suppose we better get cracking! So the really odd thing is
that MILD is everywhere. Every YouTube channel every website has a MILD tutorial, but weirdly
they always misrepresent it, they always get it wrong. And this video title isn't an exaggeration
MILD really is the most famous lucid dreaming technique, but it's also the most misrepresented,
and also one of the oldest, and also one of the very few that has had scientific research. So if
you're a lucid dreamer or you want to learn how to lucid dream then you really need to know MILD! So,
first things first, MILD was created by Dr Stephen Laberge back in the 90s and it first appeared in
his book exploring the world of lucid dreaming. I'm about to share with you the full tutorial but
with respect to Laberge this book is totally worth reading, so go out and support his work because
it's the right thing to do. So in order to perform MILD firstly you're going to need...
nothing, you're going to need your brain, this is a psychological technique. So Step One: when you
go to bed at night after you've done everything else you need to do tell yourself that you're
going to wake up and recall your dreams throughout the night, you're going to remember any dreams you
have. Step Two: if you do wake up in the night and you remember a dream try to recall any details you
can, and if you're feeling a little bit drowsy, get up and do something to wake yourself up a bit.
Okay, so now we're getting onto the bit where most people get it wrong, so pay attention! Step Three:
once you've recalled your dream and you've decided to go back to sleep, now you need to tell yourself
that the next time you're dreaming you're going to recognize that you're dreaming. So this isn't
a mantra or anything silly it's just a command to yourself, telling yourself "I'm going to recognize
the next time I'm dreaming" and if any other thoughts come into your mind try to push them away
and be single-minded focusing on your intention to recognize that you're dreaming in the near future.
Basically think of it this way, if you're going to the shop to buy something, let's say milk you
don't have to repeat with every step there "buy milk buy milk buy milk" that would be BONKERS!
so whatever part of your brain you use to remember to do things in the future, like buying something
at the store, use that part of your brain for this part of the technique. Step Four: And this
is kind of mental gymnastic time... So whilst you're focusing on your intention you also need
to imagine the dream that you've just recalled, and as you're imagining the dream, pick something
weird from that dream, and reimagine the dream as if you realized you were dreaming. that something
cued you into Lucidity, so just to clarify, you're only doing two things with one part of your brain
you're setting the intention to remember to recognize your dreaming in the near future,
using the same part of your brain you'd use to remember to buy milk, and with the other part of
your brain you're reliving your previous dream and rewriting it so that you imagine getting lucid in
that dream. Step 5: continue those previous two steps until you really feel that you've set your
intention and then just allow yourself to drift off to sleep. If you find your mind drifting away
from this thought just return back to it try it a little bit more and then let yourself relax
into sleep again .And just to be really clear this isn't a maintained awareness technique you're not
trying to fall asleep consciously, you're trying to program your mind to recognize that you're
dreaming in the near future, so that's a regained awareness dream. So if you're focusing too hard
and you're giving yourself insomnia, you're doing it wrong, that's not the MILD technique!
It sounds a lot more complicated than it really is in practice it's a really really simple really
easy lucid dreaming technique, but in the same way that if you only ever ate Ramen you'd get
a little bit unwell, because you need a nice balanced diet, and seriously trust me I tried
when I was a student not a good idea! You can't just use one lucid dreaming technique and expect
that to make you into an expert lucid dreamer, to do that you need a wide strategy for lucid
dreaming so it's probably worth checking out this video here I'll see you there!