I was wondering what people thought about Image Streaming and Meditation as aids in lucid dreaming...

I have very vivid dreams, but for some reason just can not seem to be able to do a reality check in a dream and therefore become lucid, and so I have decided to pursue WILD (yes, I know it's harder). One of the problems I have is that I find it difficult to have vivid HI, and that I loose concentration... I also have difficulty in the 'crossing over' or stepping into a dream.

What I've started to do is meditate more frequently, using the 3rd eye meditation and an astral meditation. I'm not really into that stuff, but I figure that if I meditate and imagine myself flying around etc it'll make it easier for me to handle getting lucid.

The Image Streaming thing is basically about improving your mind's eye etc, which I would like to do as I think it would help a bit when I WILD.

If anyone uses any of these things to help improve their LD's or 'practice' them or whatever, I'd like to know what you do and what (if any) progress you made, or if it helped you. I'll see how I go with it, and I might even write a tutorial or something.