Alright, so I've been trying to have a lucid for like years now and nothing has ever worked. It's getting really frustrating as everything else to do with the brain (meditation, hypnosis, etc.) has come easily to me. Lucid dreaming is a whole different matter... No matter what I do I can't become lucid!

1) Any techniques you can suggest?

2) When you have a lucid is it that you can be in control of your dream and know you're dreaming, but you only remember it when you wake up? Or do you consciously feel like "I know I'm dreaming" "I'm in control" and you can actually experience it as you would real life? I don't want to put so much time and effort into this if it's just like "I had a dream that I could control and knew I was dreaming last night!" and not "I had an amazing experience" after the night you dreamed it and while you're dreaming. Like a real memory has made a deep impression in your mind as real memories do and not like a misty memory with no true substance.