This definitely sounds like VILD, but the analogy you use I think can't be stressed enough. People write VILD tutorials who try to complicate the process far too much and try to find really intricate ways about how to properly visualize what you're seeing and just generally not connecting their process with anything anyone has any real experience with in real life, leaving you to think that VILD is a frightening new frontier for lucid dreaming that you won't be familiar with and that you shouldn't expect quick results with. But simplifying VILD down into daydream - period - leaves everyone on the same page; they know what it is and how to do it, because we've all caught ourselves daydreaming about nonsensical things during the day.