Lucid Dreaming/Glossary
- 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.