# Lucid Dreaming/Glossary

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## CAT

    See Cycle Adjustment Technique.

## Cycle Adjustment Technique

    Adjusting your sleep cycles to increase the likelihood of having a lucid dream.

## DC

    See Dream character.

## DILD

    See Dream-Initiated Lucid Dream.

## Dream character

    Any character inside your dream. Some people believe they are real people or spirit guides, others that they're just products of the dreaming mind.

## Dream-Initiated Lucid Dream

    A lucid dream that begins during a "normal", non-lucid dream.

## Dream recall

    The ability to remember details of one's dreams.

## Dream Result

    Result from a reality check that indicates that one is dreaming. Ex: Breathing through your nose while pinching your nostrils.

## Dreamscape

    The landscape and scenery of one's dreams.

## Hypnagogic imagery

    The images, sounds, etc. that you perceive as you fall asleep. Not to be confused with phosphenes.

## EILD

    See Erotically induced lucid dream

## Erotically induced lucid dream

    A lucid dream with sexual activity. They may trigger a real orgasm, a phenomenon know as nocturnal emission or wet dream.

## HI

    See Hypnagogic imagery.

## LD

    See Lucid dream.

## LILD

    See Lucid Induction of Lucid Dreams.

## Lucid dream

    A dream in which you are aware that you are dreaming.

## Lucid Induction of Lucid Dreams

    The technique in which you do something in a lucid dream that theoretically will remind you that you're dreaming in your next dream.

## MILD

    See Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams.

## Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams

    The technique in which you mentally repeat to yourself, as you fall asleep, your future intention to realize that you're dreaming.

## Named Subconscious Technique

    (See "Getting more help with MILD from your subconscious", in the forum links box in the MILD section.) This technique is a useful aid to the MILD and autosuggestion techniques where the dreamer actively engages his or her subconscious for dream results.

## NST

    See Named Subconscious Technique.

## Oneironaut

    A skilled lucid dreamer.

## Phosphenes

    Patches of colour (usually red or blue) that you can constantly see while your eyes are closed.

## Rapid Eye Movement

    The stage of the sleep cycle that your most vivid dreams occur in.

## RC

    See Reality check.

## Reality check

    A simple and quick method of determining if one is dreaming. Ex: Breathing with your nose shut, faulty light switches, etc.

## Real-life result

    A reality check result which indicates one is may not be dreaming. Ex: Being unable to will oneself to fly.

## REM

    See Rapid Eye Movement.

## Sleep paralysis (SP)

    The body's natural phenomenon of paralyzing the limbs of the body while asleep. This may be experienced consciously, either by accident or during the WILD technique.

## VILD

    See Visual Induction of Lucid Dreams.

## Visual Induction of Lucid Dreams

    The technique in which you incubate a dream that reminds you to do a reality check and become lucid.

## Vivid dream (VD)

    A dream with a notably higher level of detail.

## Wake-Back-To-Bed

    The technique in which you wake up for a bit after a few hours of sleep and go back to sleep again. Usually used in combination with other techniques.

## Wake-Initiated Lucid Dream

    A lucid dream triggered by consciously falling asleep.

## WBTB

    See Wake-Back-To-Bed.

## WILD

    See Wake-Initiated Lucid Dream.
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