It's a bummer about the old dreams, but lesson learned! You'll have many, many more. :)
As for techniques, I have a few favorites. MILD is, in my opinion, a really solid, basic induction technique. It reaches its greatest potential when paired with a WBTB, so my personal choice is to plan at least some WBTBs to help really boost your practice. I like Naiya's guide to MILD and its focus on imagination and visualization:
http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...technique.html
A great way to get trained for a full WILD is to spend some time mastering DEILD in order to learn the feel of it. A DEILD is really just a WILD under extraordinarily ideal circumstances, so the skills should transfer. There are a couple of great guides for this on the site:
http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...me-ld-god.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...cid-dream.html
If you're looking for something more exotic, SSILD was a very fruitful tech for me. I do MILD now, but SSILD gave me a whole lot of LDs. My warning is that it's very exotic and nobody is completely sure of the reasons why it works. :chuckle: Still, it is surprisingly effective for many people. Here's the post about it:
http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...eam-ssild.html
Good luck with whatever you decide!