Hello and welcome to the forum. I have been telling people for years that visualization and dreaming both occur in the secondary visual cortices in our occipital lobe. This is not a theory but a scientific fact. I suggest that this is info we can use to attain a LD. By observing hypnagogic imagery, and applying a real world definition (a green blob is a green cloud, a cross hatch matrix is a fence) you are maintaining some activity in your frontal lobe. Our frontal lobe is normal 'off' during dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a balancing act between conscious and unconscious awareness. I have been using visualization now for ten years and it works for me. However, if someone thinks drinking apple juice or eating Cheetos will help them attain LDs, then they will. This is simply because positivism is a fundamental key to a forced LD.Keep on visualizing ... it works for me and it looks like it works for you!