I've heard people say that if you eat spicy food before sleep, you'll end up having strange dreams. I've also heard that whenever you're on medication it can have an effect on your dreams.

I'm not sure about all of that, but I do know that in the past I have had some pretty odd dreams, and they are always fun to analyze. This is not so much a lucid question, as in my opinion, for a dream to be as strange as I'm talking, you'd have know control and assume that it's real.

So my question is, does anyone know if there is anyway to trigger a dream one would consider "strange"? I know that's a pretty vauge question, as the word can be defined differently by everyone, but I'd like to hear anything anyone has to say on the subject.