Wake Initiated Lucid Dreams "WILD" and Dream Initiated Lucid Dreams "DILD" are not techniques. Instead, it is best to consider them as the two "doorways" or "types" of lucid dream.

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The "Dream" and "Wake" in these names designate where the lucid dream starts: in a WILD the lucid dream initiates (starts) from wakefulness and you fall consciously into the dream, in a DILD the lucid dream initiates (starts) during the dream and critical awareness is added to the dream.

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There are many techniques that will induce either a WILD or DILD, but they are not techniques themselves. 

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MILD is a technique and the acronym stands for Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreaming. Notice in MILD that the "I" stands for "induction", meaning "to bring about". 

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