Hi Phoen:

We are telepathically sharing ideas. The EXACT idea occurred to me about a week ago. Basically, I think that most people are trying to lucid dream at the WRONG time of day -- at night, and repeatedly fail because of the low level of neurotransmitters in the sleeping brain.

LaBerge and other advanced lucid dreamers such as Hearne have commented that lucid dreaming is easiest and most intense during daytime naps. I do not fall asleep during daytime naps so I never considered this a viable approach. However, about a week ago it occurred to me that using brainwave entrainment (including Ganzfeld) to induce a low theta or delta state would produce hypnogogic imagery and facilitate lucid dreaming in what is basically a daytime WILD.

In fact, I have been trying to do the experiment myself for about a week but am delayed due to domestic turmoil (wife and 3 teenage kids) and rebuilding my computer. Rather than Ganzfeld ping-pong balls, it may be better to use a light-blocking mask to allow the hypnogogic imagery to manifest in darkeness. My current thinking is to induce a 3 Hz delta state and modulate it with an alpha or beta wave.