Usually I just lay down, close my eyes and either fall into some kind of deep thought before going to sleep which becomes my dream or focus on a single object... I picture it in my mind as if I could reach out and grab it and then when I fall asleep... I don't know it's hard to explain... I don't know if I mentioned this already but one time when I was younger I consiously forced myself into a lucid dream. I was probably about 8... My grandmother had just died and I was like crying myself to sleep. Next thing I know I'm in this really badass dream but I end up waking up, but I didn't want it to end... So I closed my eyes and focused on the last moment in the dream realllly hard and within what seemed like seconds I was back in the dream. I still remember some of it too.... I was some kind of superman type hero figure and I was saving this girl that I had a crush on... I remember flying through a window... That's it...