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Quick rundown. Use these terms for to pivot into searches for videos, articles, forum posts, etc.
DILD: Stands for Dream Induced Lucid Dreaming. This is where you become conscious inside a dream. You achieve this by incorporating certain practices into your waking life until they become such a habit that you also do them in your dreams. Mostly these are called reality checks. Things like using a hand to hold you nose closed and then trying to breathe through your nose (do this once per hour). If you awake, you won't be able to do this but in a dream you can usually still breath through your nose. There are hundreds of other things like this that you can make into a daily habit. Also making general mindfulness and situational awareness a habit in waking life will help as well.
MILD: This stands for Mnemonic Induced Lucid Dreaming. This is where you repeat a mantra to yourself repeatedly while falling asleep to increase your chances of having a lucid dream. For example, repeating "I will become lucid in my next dream." over and over in your head for about 5 minutes while you are falling asleep at night.
WILD: This stands for Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming. This is where you maintain consciousness as your body falls asleep. The "mind awake, body asleep state". There are many methods to do this. Just search for things like "how to wild lucid dream". Also, look into how people practice Astral Projection/Out of Body experiences. It doesn't matter whether or not you believe astral projection is a real thing or if you believe that AP/OBE is a totally different thing from lucid dreaming. The methods that people use to induce an out of body experience are almost the same as the ones people use to induce WILD. So they are worth looking at if you want to learn to WILD because you will run into the same problems, have to overcome the same obstacles, etc.
WBTB: This stands for Wake Back To Bed. In order to lucid dream, you must be able to in the REM stage of sleep. You go through several cycles of REM and NREM (non-REM) sleep at night (see pic related). In the beginning of the night, the REM periods are very short and the NREM are very long. At the end of your sleep, the REM periods are longer and the NREM periods are shorter. So, you can increase your chances of your techniques working by waking up in the middle of the night and then trying to MILD or WILD. The amount of time you need to sleep before doing WBTB varies from person to person. I generally only need 3 hours of sleep before I WBTB. Some people need 6 hours. Some people fall somewhere in between. If you feel like you can't get back to sleep after you WBTB then you need to reduce the time. If you fall asleep too fast then you need to increase it.
I have a set of "sleep headphones" (search amazon for that term) that I wear while I sleep. They are sort of like a head band with head phones in it. Pretty comfy. I use a playlist with 3-6 hours of silence on an mp3 file and then a short 3 minute song that is pleasant to wake up to. I do this because I don't have to move to shut off an alarm and also the adreneline bump you get from waking up to a loud annoying noise is counterproductive. Sometimes the song doesn't wake me up but I hear it in my dream and that causes me to become lucid… which is also nice about this set up.
FILD: FILD is a WILD+WBTB technique that works with a very high success rate for a lot of people even though nobody knows why. Basically you do WBTB. Then, when you wake up, you lay in bed and move your index and middle finger up and down like you are playing the piano but you do it very softly. So softly that you wouldn't be able to actually push a piano key down. That's all you. You don't think about anything. You don't count the number of times your fingers are moving. You don't move or swallow or anything. You just move your fingers in this motion while keeping your mind clear. After doing it for somewhere between 30 seconds and 5 minutes (depends on the person), perform a reality check (most people use to nose breathing one). If your reality check says you are awake, go back to bed (I usually do MILD here) and try again next time you wake up. If your reality check says you are in a dream, then you probably just performed a success WILD. It's really weird that works and it seems like something that shouldn't work because it's so easy but it does.