thats not a bad idea . whenevner i've realized that im dreaming while in one , ive actually done somethign about it once ( i flew, a pretty standard dream occurance ) . the other times, i continued to do as i was , or stopped doing anythign together , after which i scolded myself for being so boring . perhaps just thinkign that i was aware was all part of the dream then , and ive never actually lucidly dreamt .

i do pretty frequently
i had one recently where someone came up to me and told me j. mascis died and in the dream i started flipping out and i went to his wikipedia page to see if it was true and i could walk around INSIDE it and it was like this big forest with all these weeping willows with a lake made out of cellophane and construction paper swans floating around and all these plasticine piggies roaming around. there were also nondescript words flying around in mid-air.

I've been trying to...all I've been able to do is realize in my dream "I'm not dreaming" when actually I am.

when you return to sleep after sleep deprivation it usually results in lucid dreaming

like in the same night or after a while?

like if you pull an all-nighter and go to bed at your normal time the next day.

hahaha paulie walnuts

the other day i had a dream that i met a coven of satanic witches and one of them was performing a ritual to ask the devil what would be an appropriately satanic name for her new born child, the devil told her she should name her child Wayne Helmsley.

if you want to have weirder dreams drink a couple of glasses of this stuff before bed

Actually, that was real.

doesn't that have wormwood in it? so it would be illegal in the united states?

i wish

apparently it does
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelinkovac

don't know anything about legality in the states though, not that you're over 21 yet anyway.

like that would ever stop me.

Liar, I had no such experience.

well maybe you can find a shop that sells it in new york, and then pay an adult to buy you some

Jagermeister is a good drink, but the dreams that come by drinking loads of it are of the shattered variety.

Eating cheese before bed supposedly induces dreams, strange myth. I've had a few experiences of lucid dreaming, only seems to occur when something in the dream strikes as too surreal, something that doesn't add up in reality, like the ability to fly or lay eggs may be. The other times I experienced it, I believe it was triggered by these repetitive dreams I was having, I would suddenly remember mid dream, "hey, I've had this dream before".
I always find my dreams end badly, terribly even, even though I want a nice ending. I think this is because of all the gruesome horror movies I saw at a very young age with my older cousin.

jager is gross
tastes like coough syrup

well I dunno about the horror movies, but as far as triggering lucid dreams goes -

the word on the street (pillow?) is that if, while in your dream, you come across say a lightswitch - it will not work right in your dream. So if you flick it on/off that is a prime trigger to become lucid. There are tons of other ones too. Supposedly you can't read text in a dream - so if you see text, then BAM enter lucidity.

There really isn't much evidence for all of this though. Dreams are very capable of deceiving you to the point where you think you are awake and 'in control' - and while that dream might be the most interesting one you'll have in six months, it means very little if it (the phenomenon) can't be reproduced regularly.

and wormwood / absinthe is illegal in the states, yes.

ah i thought so
interesting theory/info on the lucid dreams too