When you read through these techniques, remember that different techniques work for different people. There is no “best technique” and most techniques could be used to have 2–5 lucid dreams every night!

However, you will probably want some advice as to which technique you should try first. A major choice is whether you want to use a method which starts from a dream or a method which starts from being awake.^* If you master a technique which starts from being awake, you are able to have lucid dreams wherever you can sleep. For other techniques, you have to rely on your luck to give you lucid dreams after you have done your technique. Here are some advantages and disadvantages for specific techniques:

Technique	Summary	Advantages	Disadvantages	Best for...
WBTB (Wake-Back-To-Bed)	Wake after some sleep and then return to bed.	Simple Can be very reliable, especially when used with other techniques	Disrupts sleep cycle	People who want to strengthen other techniques, or who wake up in the middle of the night anyway.
Auto- suggestion	Let yourself genuinely believe that you'll become lucid—without intending to become lucid—so that you really will.	Simple	Less effective than some other techniques (such as MILD)	People who are highly susceptible to hypnosis or who don't have the energy for other techniques.
MILD (Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams)	Fall asleep while focused on your intention to remember that you're dreaming.	Simple	Can be boring	People with a good prospective memory (remembrance of future intentions).
WILD (Wake-Initiation of Lucid Dreams)	Keep your consciousness while falling asleep and go straight into a dream.	Lets you truly induce lucid dreams at will	Can cause frightening experiences Can take long to master	People who want to reliably have lucid dreams.
VILD (Visual Induction of Lucid Dreams)	By repetitive visualisation, incubate a dream in which you do a reality check.	Also lets you induce lucid dreams at will Works extremely well for some people...	...but not very well for others Visualizing can keep you awake	People who have good visualisation skills.
CAT (Cycle Adjustment Technique)	Adjust your sleep cycle to encourage awareness during the latter part of your sleep.	Requires relatively little effort other than adjusting your sleep cycle Is very effective	Requires you to wake up early on some days You're only likely to get a lucid dream on every other day (though this could easily be more frequently than with other techniques)	People who have a very regular sleep cycle.

Remember, it'll help a lot to have your recall up to at least one dream a night before attempting these techniques.

^* The usual acronyms in forums for this are DILD (Dream-Initiated Lucid Dream) and WILD (Wake-Initiated Lucid Dream). All the techniques that induce WILDs are described under WILD on this page.

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