[therealgimli]

I experimented with lucid dreaming many years ago and found it to be quite intriguing. I highly recommend trying it.

It took a few months of practice to be able to do it on demand. For me that meant keeping a dream journal by my bed and diligently writing in it every time I woke up.

The trick I used to transfer control of the dream to my conscious mind was to "touch my nose"; I had to keep reminding myself while conscious to do so.

I eventually stopped doing it because oddly enough I started feeling not as rested as I would have liked after active dreaming.

It was not so much the case that I could choose what I would dream, though I suppose that might be possible. It was more like I would be in a dream setting determined by my subconscious mind and then I would take control and do whatever I wanted-- fly, use magic, take the story in a new direction, whatever. But it was always clear that I was dreaming.