I know that LucidApple has alot of experience in this area. Where has Jeff been anyway?

Well, I know that he has a special connection with animals. But I'll let him post about that if he ever gets around to it.

Also Deepak Chopra has said that he has actually had a bird fly down and land on his shoulder before.

And I've experienced this also with the birds that come around our house. We have these feeders and all the different birds like all their different seeds...but it seems like whenever I want to see a bird I just think about it, and sort of "will" it to come and it usually just appears out of no where. My favorite is the female downy woodpecker...they are so cute.

My mom and I were identifying these birds in a book and I pointed one out and said, I'd love to see that one! And low and behold it showed up at our feeder the next day. Deepak talks alot about the power of intention, and that if you put those intentions out into the universe you will have some cool results. I've found this to be true about alot of things...but I don't want to go too off-topic

EDIT: just to make this a more relevant post...I think that it has more to do with how intuned you are with nature and the collective consciousness...and lucid dreamers seem to be...so I think that yes, we are more in touch with the universe...but not the people who use their lucids to just do stupid stuff and not learn anything.