First of all, I'm happy to be here! FryingMan lured me away from Reddit's Luciddreaming-sub.. not that it took much convincing, since I already had spend some time here at DV reading some of the very excellent tutorials.

A little bit of backdrop; usually I do WBTB in weekends, I mostly do DEILD's with occasionally WILDs.. and have recently taken up MILD again.

Regardless of method however, the overall approach is the same, in that I'm handed a setting and then excersize control over it in various way, with varying success. So I've been thinking about ways to induce dreams w i t h o u t having that as part of the traditional techniques.
So the question is about dream induction. The average opinion, as far as I can tell, is that if you think a lot about what you want to dream about during the day, the repetition will do it for you. - Provided that there's an emotional backdrop, that is it really 'means' something to you.

While I tend to agree, that it's a viable approach, it's also seems as if it's only a part of the story. There's a lot more to dream formation. Like things from the past that was not significant in any way, or things that never happened, takes place in my dreams. All events I did n o t think about or even remotely concerned myself with during the previous day.

Why is this interesting then? Well, if there is a key to unlocking the logic to what is being dreamt, we could potentially make induction far more easier than simply working with repetition (or digging into WILD and variants).

The situation could potentially be that the schemas are purely emotionally selected and that the randomness is truly random within the context of the overall emotion. Like, let's say I'm feeling slightly stressed, a bit short on time f.ex - it's no surprise to me that I dream about a chaotic train ride where I struggle to find the right train and get to it in time.. but it's less obvious why there's a kangoroo onboard the train f.ex.
For this example it would make sense if I had any reason to think of a kangoroo, like I've seen one on tv during the day, thought about wildlife in Australia etc. My point is that I have a slightly hard time assuming that anything in our heads are truly random.. mostly because like 50% of what I dream, I can trace back to a why I dreamt it with ease.. but it still leaves a lot of seemingly random stuff. Can we exploit the random parts?

TLDR; any ideas about dream incubation that doesn't rely on repitition w. emotional content or are a part of WILD (w.variants)?