I'm fairly sure everyone has had strange ways with the achieving of lucidity in dreams.

I will begin my thread by saying I had my first lucid dream this Monday, and it lasted 5 to 10 minutes, no more than that. Fairly short, but awesome.

I must, however, comment on the way I achieved lucidity. It was not by reality checking, nor was it by mantras, not even WBTB methods. I became lucid in the dream because a friend of mine, one of the characters in the dream, told me it was a dream - he was speaking to his girlfriend -, and then he looked at me and told me to get out of his dream. After that, I was in another place - my high school, actually - completely aware of my dream state.

Has this happened with any of you? Seemed fairly uncommon to me.

Also, tell us the surely strangest ways you have ever achieved lucidity in your dreams.