I offer no money back guarantee's or "100%" promises with this technique, its something that works and has always worked very well for me and im hoping others find it useful also.

The origional idea of this technique was the rapid induction of sleep, and for the longest time ive used it as such, infact it solved the mild insomnia i was experiencing at the time i came up with it (think years ago).

The technique
So one night while trying to get to sleep i found something strange, I found that i could start hypnogogia manually by simply mimicking it instead of laying for ages waiting for it to kick in on its own.

What ive found is that if I mimic hypnogogia the mind seems to take control of it, sometimes after only a few minutes, and when this handover occurs Ill find myself in full blown HI on the border of sleep. Ive taken to calling this "leading the mind", and i think it may have potential in other area's of mind too.

Leading/coaxing the mind to hypnogogia
This is by no means easy to describe so i apologise in advance to all confused. Ive decided not to try and list definitive steps but instead to describe what i experience in hopes those who want to can follow it .

1) I'll first relax and empty/blank my mind for a few seconds to clear out thoughts from the day. Usually this relaxation includes 3 deep and slow breaths holding my breath on the last one for around 8 seconds and then slowly releasing it (Thanks hypnotist1).

2) Once my mind is clear i begin mimicking hypnogogia, auditory hypnogogia to be precise. If you've ever experienced auditory hypnogogia you'll know that you sometimes hear a jumble of voices, like being in a room with a few people talking over the top of each other, very few words of which you can make out.
What i usually do is imagine a friend or 2 talking and mumbling, interrupting each others sentences as they go, just cutting each other up and talking over the top of each other. Im not too specific with voices, ill have other random friends voices, voices i dont know etc randomly cutting in and speaking. Now the things they say are chaotic too, i may catch or even passively control the first few words such as "why do you even need to..." or "no because..." but then it degenerates into unintelligible mumbling almost like the game sims heh.

Theres no subject, no direction the talkings going in... After maybe the first few sentences Im not actually taking in the words but am passively making sure the speaking continues, alot of it will be almost randomness, just a random collection of words and noise but with the voices of my friends. After so long, which is usually only a few minutes for me, the mind will takeover completely, im nearly always aware when this is happening and its interesting to observe. With the hypnogogic state set in i can usually predict within seconds of when ill lose consciousness, alot like when you're waking up from a lucid dream and watch yourself losing dream consciousness, although the lines a little more blurry than that.

Why Attaining Lucidity?
I think this has the potential (at least for me) of being a supplement for some WILD'ing techniques. If at the moment of the handover you can re-focus and keep a degree of awareness, there may be a good chance of entering sleep consciously and quickly. Although i will add it would be like pulling a parachute at the last possible second.. if you miss time it theres probably not alot you can do about it.