I was reading the webcomic Dreamland Chronicles. They mention Lucid Dreaming in a scientific context, though I think now that I look at some of the information and successful attempts here they got a few things wrong...but not much.

I had, to a very minor extent, been aware that something called Lucid Dreaming was possible, but had little idea what it was and it fell under the classification of 'New Age and Occult' in my mind, and therefore something that probably didn't really work or was some sort of mind trick (I had had a...'new age experience,' I guess you'd say, and had been disappointed to discover that most everything there was tricks of the mind or could otherwise be scientifically explained, so I tended to avoid most things related to that now).

I did a google search for Lucid Dreaming, wondering what it was, and Dreamviews was the first link on my search. Hopped in, read up, joined, and started my DJ within a few days of finding the site. And here I am...