Different people use different techniques to obtain lucidity. Some people take b6, some like to get caffinated off your head and so forth.

There is a way which i used only once and it got me lucid (100% success rate or what?! )

Wearing a nicotine patch (I wore two because I don't take things by halves) before you go to bed and sleep with it on.

The people who make them said you shouldn't and it can make you have nightmares - I also read somewhere that this is true and you will really likely have a nightmare.

When I did this I had a nightmare which was so scary and horrific and personal that I don't even want to share it - but let's put it this way, despite I knew it wasn't real it still tugged my emotions enough to make me cry and be really shakey all day - hence why I only tried it once.

WARNING: If you are NOT a smoker I wouldn't recommend trying this as, even though it is only in small quanities it is still suppling nicotine to your blood stream, try this method at your own risk and I will not be held responisble for anything this method might incur.

I will try it again tonight and will post here again tomorrow (it's 11:21pm here in England so most probably won't even read this til i've posted the results)

I really hope I don't get a nightmare as bad as I did last time, because even though I was in complete control over the dream the sheer scariness of the dream stopped me from thinking straight which ment I eventually lost consentrating on being lucid and I woke up