I was fascinated with lucid dreaming and read the classic book when I was about ten years old. I tried to do it a few times.
I have had many intermeditation dreams which were very much awake at the same time. I have never and do not now practice any sort of dream meditation or structure as I see no reason to learn to control phantoms. However, I have dreams of the future if I dream. For instance I had a dream one night about driving really far and trying to get gas and someone at the pump spilling it out all over my feet, and then waking up and hearing about the huge oil spill in Russia. I am not certain if I am not just able somehow to maybe hear very clearly while asleep and picking up on television from someone nearby, or whatever, but if I let them dreams will show me everything before the next days events to look out for people should probably understand however that this probably comes from a lifetime of reading Tarot cards as a confidant and friend and counselor. There was a time a couple years back where I went yajna crazy and all the energy from priests on me every night in India kept me from sleeping for months on end. In the end I had to cut out all yajnas as even 'bogus' ones I find powerful as its ones intention which has the basic power. During that time, I slept fitfully for about an hour or two a night, and my dreams were filled with the occult knowledge of all ages. I was transformed into Hermes or Melchezidek. It was pretty intense, and I am glad it has passed. That was enough outright tampering with destiny for one lifetime. Probably the most lucid dream I ever had was again a meditation dream, that is, dreaming in a sitting position, and I watched my mind fall asleep and then it was empty of object and then images started going as if I were driving some place and then I saw a marina and the yachts and it was pretty. That was all. But startlingly clear. Nothing very meaningful to it however.
