Ssild Official Tutorial (2.0)

You are free to label it as anything, but what you are saying shows lack of understanding on how SSILD works. You probably didn't even bother to read the text carefully. Let's get some facts straight: 1. It is repeatedly mentioned in the instruction that the technique should not be used as WILD method and achieving WILD should be seen as only a byproduct. Attempting to achieve WILD through this technique will cause it to perform poorly and the user may lose sleep. 2. The majority of success come from subsequent DILDs, FAs, and spontaneous OBEs, not WILD. 3. In practice, SSILD takes a fraction of the time required for WILD. It does not require you to stay awake for extended period and it encourages falling asleep quickly once the required cycles have been performed. 4. SSILD does not require relaxation, visualization, auto suggestion, and so on. It doesn't even require one to stay still. Try that with WILD! 5. Since SSILD was deployed 2 years ago, it has helped thousands of people who never had any luck with traditional WILD/DILD methods. Its success rate is many times higher than traditional WILD techniques. There are numerous additional differences between SSILD and traditional WILD methods, but I won't list them all because you sound like you won't really care anyway.

It also appears to me that you confuse "type of lucid dreams" with actual "technique". WILD stands for Wake-Initiated-Lucid-Dream, and describes a particular type of lucid dream which is initiated from the waked state. The counterpart of it is DILD, which describes the type of lucid dreams that are initiated from within a normal dream. These are very broad categories, although they do not necessarily encompass everything, such as spontaneous OBEs. Saying a "technique" is just WILD or DILD is overgeneralization to say the least, and is a common mistake made by people with limited understanding on lucid dreaming. In my post, I always spell it out clearly, using "a WILD/DILD technique" instead of saying just "WILD/DILD". SSILD can result in WILD, DILD, FA, and spontaneous OBE. It is neither a pure WILD nor DILD technique.

There are 2 possible causes. The eye twitching can be a sign that you are entering the dream state, and it is largely illusory. Unfortunately it can be difficult to handle and even experienced dreamers are likely to fail and end up waking up for real. Another cause is that you are simply not relaxed sufficiently and you are exerting too much force to the eye muscles. If you encounter these problems with SSILD, it is a sign that you are not doing the technique correctly and probably misunderstood it.