All I can do is share. So, this is what I did the nights before my best lucid dreams.

1. During the day, I had focused intensely and completely, on the lucid state. In other words, the feeling, impression, atmosphere, of the lucid state all wrapped into a single perception in waking life. Focus on this for as long as you like.

2. Play out old dreams in my head as if I am back in the dream, going as far as acting out individual parts myself.

3. Before falling asleep, recall the days events, the weeks events, the years events, and any other occurrence of thought arising and dismissing. Every dream in recent memory is recalled.

4. Speak mantra while focusing on dream state.

5. For peaceful sleep, as I am falling to sleep I imagine I am doing one of a few things: flying through the air, flying through space, swimming in water, crawling on/through soil, any other fluid-like movement.

These precepts of dreaming were shown to me by my dream guide as a six year old child. Somehow the knowledge came to me naturally long before I learned academically. These are the basis of almost any technique of lucid dreaming. I hope this is of some help. Its the first time Ive ever shared it so enjoy!