Thread: inducing dreams without the use of traditional techniques?

RiftMeUp, I've wondered the same things about dream content and also really want to be able to induce the exact starting setting that I want. I've never been able to get it right off the bat, but I've gotten it very closely after being lucid. I think the EASIEST method I've seen is just thinking, feeling, "being", where you want to be as you fall asleep. I did this and became lucid within the dream after some unrelated nonsense. I then tried to get where I was going, only to realize it was right outside the whole time. So, for me, the best/easiest way is to really feel yourself in the place you wanna be as you're falling asleep, then while lucid in dream, just keep wanting to be there. I'd suggest walking around corners and wanting the place to be there, this works best for me. This lets the subconscious do things for you and keeps things easy as opposed to trying to control the setting directly, which seems to exhaust the consciousness (you).