If I were you, DarkDreamer, I'd listen to the good advice these guys -- even Mzzkc -- are offering and give LD'ing another try, only this time with a little more consistent focus on the process and on getting your head in the right place. If you're too lazy to keep a dream journal, scoff at fully half the routes to a LD (WILD), have issues with getting up and going back to bed (WBTB), and assume that your DC's will let you down, then you could try this for another 4 or 40 years and never succeed. The best things are never easy, and sometimes take some real effort on your part... if you ever do succeed, you won't regret it!

Oh, and about those mindless DC's: I've had, among other things, many adventures, conversations, and intellectual arguments with DC's, and was rarely disappointed -- as long as I wasn't expecting to be disappointed; assume that your DC's will be mindless robots and, sure enough, they will be. Give them a chance.

Good luck, whatever you do.