In EWOLD, it is stated that stabilization is enough to make the dream more vivid. Couple it with increasing your self awareness and BAM! I like Sivason's stabilization techniques, but a question rises:
If it is as simple as stabilization and increasing your self awareness, then all the LDs of the experts must be lifelike, since these actions are easy for them to do in the begining of a LD, but I'm not sure that most of their LDs are lifelike.
You have a dream yoga workbook in Sivason's class, Fryingman. Would you mind asking him? He gets so much LDs he wants to reduce them!