my biggest problem used to be falling a sleep

Usually all I'm focused on is falling into a trance state, I don't think of nothing and just lay there until I start getting Hypnogogic Imagery then I visualize a specific place (Not trying to see the place instead feel as if your there) eventually the image starts to come into picture.

I usually imagine myself in a crowded gym

as soon as you become conscious in the dream focus on a specific goal...in my case I'm looking for the exit which I then expect to see something different when I open the door I see a whole different place and that is when I star my WILDs