When I first began this journey (not so long ago) I realized that to have a first person lucid experience I needed to have a first person perspective. I got into SSILD very early and the third cycle where body awareness comes in always felt important....so I always spent a little extra time there.

In one of my first lucid dreams I flew over a stream at the edge of a pasture. It was as if I was a hawk. I was high up and there was a person standing in that stream far below me. I flew down and became that person. The very next night I entered the very same dream....only this time there was nobody in the stream. I flew down as me and entered into a wonderful lucid experience.

I feel as though I established my dream body then and all of my dreams since have been first person. I continue to do a lot of body awareness work at night during my LD practice. I feel as though it is important for me to strengthen that connection between my dream body and my real body.

Not sure if that helps you.