I've had a total of three DILDs, and on all three occasions I've been alone in a relatively small space (bathroom, bedroom, car). The overwhelming majority of the time I'm surrounded by friends or random DCs, but once in a great while I'll find myself totally alone, and perhaps that's when my mind is least distracted.

I'm trying to think of how I might effectively leverage this to achieve more LDs. Perhaps I could use autosuggestion to help set up scenarios where I'm isolated. Maybe there's something fundamental to all this that I'm just missing entirely. I dunno... that's why I'm here!

Also worthy of note (although tangential) is that I no longer need DCs to help me get what I want out of dreams, which is an incredibly reassuring development. The down side is that I occasionally have... er... random thoughts, that make unpleasant things appear in my LDs.