Interesting!
that many meditational practices seek to put someone else's ideas into your head, when the whole point of understanding the state of mind for LD'ing is to shake off anyone else's ideas and understand that the entire world of your dreams is you, and nothing more -- or less.
Sageous, I don't know if given what you've written above if you'd be interested in reading it, but in "Mindfulness In Plain English" the author emphasizes the point of vipassana meditation is nothing more or less than "discovering the truth" about experience, reality, etc. I find that highly compatible with discovering the truth about one's state at any particular moment, and not at all about putting someone else's ideas into your head. In fact, from the little I know about Buddhist practice, the emphasis always seems to be "don't take what we [the teachers] are saying at face value, test the teachings yourself and reach your own conclusions."