MNEMONIC TECHNIQUE – A device, such as a formula or rhyme, used as an aid in remembering

“If You Want to Have Lucid Dreams, Here’s a Tip From a Recent Study” – by Mike McRae

“….One technique required subjects to practice checking their reality while awake with the aim of entrenching the habit for when they were dreaming.

A second process required them to awaken for a short duration after five hours of sleep, and then return to sleep…

The third technique – referred to as MILD (mnemonic induction of lucid dreams) – involved repeating the phrase “the next time I’m dreaming, I will remember that I’m dreaming” while awake….

…Just over 17 percent of dreams among those who used all three techniques were described as lucid. Among those who fell asleep within five minutes of returning to bed during the MILD technique, this rate skyrocketed to almost 46 percent…

“The MILD technique works on what we call ‘prospective memory’ – that is, your ability to remember to do things in the future,” says researcher Denholm Aspy.

“By repeating a phrase that you will remember you’re dreaming, it forms an intention in your mind that you will, in fact, remember that you are dreaming, leading to a lucid dream.”….

…The least likely to work, however, was practicing reality checks while awake. Those in this group actually experienced fewer lucid dreams….

This research was published in Dreaming.” – www.sciencealert.com/researchers-suggest-three-tips-for-lucid-dreams?utm_source=ScienceAlert+-+Da…

Reality testing and the mnemonic induction of lucid dreams: Findings from the national Australian lucid dream induction study. – Aspy, Denholm J.,Delfabbro, Paul,Proeve, Michael,Mohr, Philip – Dreaming, Vol 27(3), Sep 2017, 206-231 – psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fdrm0000059 …

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“Induction of lucid dreams: A systematic review of evidence”

“…Future directions

The following ideas, we believe, are worth to tackle and pursue further. The techniques that showed to be most effective, such as Tholey’s combined technique or MILD, should be tested further and the circumstances under which they are most successful should be explored (e.g. in combination with WBTB). Also the methods that demonstrated some initial success but were not further investigated (e.g. WILD techniques, vibro-/electro-tactile, vestibular stimulations) must be more thoroughly tested. Application of the Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor class drugs, such as donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmin, definitely warrant further investigation, as well as new prospective yet untested methods like tDCS, TMS or GVS (Noreika et al, 2010). …” – – by Tadas Stumbrys, Daniel Erlacher, Melanie Schädlich, Michael Schredl –boris.unibe.ch/39251/1/21_LucidDreamInductionReview_23_revised.pdf

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