What I find helpful is to determine what you want to do in your up coming dreaming sessions two hours before sleeping. While I haven't extensively tried this, I have noticed that generally whatever I do two hours prior to sleeping appears in my dreams. By the way, it takes a LONG time to carry thoughts into your dreams. I mean, not for everyone, but I think most people will agree that it takes a long time. When I first started lucid dreaming it was easier for me to input info that I wanted to happen in my dreams.

But what I suggest is doing something involving dreaming two hours prior to laying down. Read about it. Check the forums, make a song about it, write it down, talk about it, plan it out, and do lots of RCs.

I too will work on this more and tell you the results later, if you'd like. Hope this helps.