MNEMONIC – assisting or intended to assist memory
MNEMONIC TECHNIQUE – A device, such as a formula or rhyme, used as an aid in remembering
“If You Want to Have Lucid Dreams, Here’s a Tip From a Recent Study” – by Mike McRae
“….One technique required subjects to practice checking their reality while awake with the aim of entrenching the habit for when they were dreaming.
A second process required them to awaken for a short duration after five hours of sleep, and then return to sleep…
The third technique – referred to as MILD (mnemonic induction of lucid dreams) – involved repeating the phrase “the next time I’m dreaming, I will remember that I’m dreaming” while awake….
…Just over 17 percent of dreams among those who used all three techniques were described as lucid. Among those who fell asleep within five minutes of returning to bed during the MILD technique, this rate skyrocketed to almost 46 percent…
“The MILD technique works on what we call ‘prospective memory’ – that is, your ability to remember to do things in the future,” says researcher Denholm Aspy.
“By repeating a phrase that you will remember you’re dreaming, it forms an intention in your mind that you will, in fact, remember that you are dreaming, leading to a lucid dream.”….
…The least likely to work, however, was practicing reality checks while awake. Those in this group actually experienced fewer lucid dreams….
This research was published in Dreaming.” – www.sciencealert.com/researchers-suggest-three-tips-for-lucid-dreams?utm_source=ScienceAlert+-+Da…
Reality testing and the mnemonic induction of lucid dreams: Findings from the national Australian lucid dream induction study. – Aspy, Denholm J.,Delfabbro, Paul,Proeve, Michael,Mohr, Philip – Dreaming, Vol 27(3), Sep 2017, 206-231 – psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fdrm0000059