I had been trying to have an LD for a while with not much success. Then I read online somewhere that consuming fluoride can calcify your pineal gland, which a lot of people say is linked to dreaming. I figured, "what the heck, maybe if I stop consuming fluoride I'll have a little more luck." So, I stopped drinking tap water and started using toothpaste that didn't contain fluoride. After a few days, I could tell my body was going through detox (based on the symptoms of flouride detoxification I found online: red patches on the skin, bad depression for no real reason, etc.) It was pretty uncomfortable for a couple days, but got better quickly. Then suddenly, my dreams became really vivid and within a week I was able to have my first DILD, which was an incredible, even life-changing experience for me. Since then I've realized also that taking some 5htp around noon (but not before bed) helps me a lot, as well as large amounts of vitamin C (a few cans of guava nectar a day is always good.) I haven't seen anything about vitamin C on here, but it helps me a bunch. There's a lot of speculation that DMT is partially responsible for dreaming, (which would make sense considering detoxing my pineal gland helped so much and the pineal gland produces DMT) and there have been a lot of accounts of vitamin C enhancing LSD trips; DMT and LSD are fairly closely related tryptamines, maybe I'm on to something, haha.