Hm please don't get me wrong. I agree that meditation is very beneficial in many ways. I do it every day too. But in my opinion one should not fall asleep while meditation.(exceptions might be when you meditate for 12h straight or meditate through the whole night but that are exceptions for people who have decades of experience). When you fall asleep in formal meditation you do something wrong because meditation is an act of focus and concentration...
I also agree that one should fall asleep conscious and not just pass out. Therefore are different approaches to stay aware and focused but I wouldn't call this formal meditation.

Awareness is indeed the key for having present and vivid dreams. (just considering the benefits for the night, there are a lot more for your waking daily life itself) and attaining lucidity!

And as I said I don't want to attack you but I notice that you really love to blog your gained knowledge and talk a lot about it that's okay for me. Everyone can choose to read your stuff and make ones own mind about it.
But you seem to have nearly every week a new epiphany and new enlightenment so I am just curious, like you say not just talking but action:
Tell me something about your LD count and rate stability/lenght. How successful you are actually with all your epiphanys considering lucid dreaming over all the years of intense practice like you say? (I don't mean at all all the other benefits for your daily life that I am sure you have and I really think that you are on the right path and think in the right direction) but really concerning your lucid dreaming.
Because i at least have the feeling that you don't lucid dream that regular and not on a daily basis and since you are doing it that long now with that much of activity and effort here in DV one could say you could be successful or at least there are other that are more successful with less talking?
I just want to hear your opinion to that.