I am new to this whole world of lucid dreaming and I had a couple questions that I would like answered to the best of your abilities:

1. Is being lucid completely necessary for optimal dream control?

2. If it is necessary, does the realization that it is a dream interfere with the enjoyability due to the fact that you know it is not real?

3. What requisites do you recommend before I attempt to lucid dream (I already started a dream journal)

4. Which method of inducing a lucid dream do you recommend I attempt first?

Please answer