Found this site today and I think it's fascinating. I've run across other sites on lucid dreaming and was interested, but they seemed to tie it to psychic phenomena more than anything else. Though I believe it's possible that such abilities may exist, there's probably nobody more un-psychic than myself. So attempting to lucid dream didn't seem worth pursuing.

However, from the information found here, it sounds as though I may have already experienced a mild form of lucid dreaming. Sometimes (usually it seems to be in the moments just before I wake up) there are parts of a dream where I feel like I am "writing the script" or influencing the actions of dream characters while still seeing events and feeling as if I am there. Of course they don't always do what I'm trying to tell them to, and it will sometimes change back into a more normal dream state even before being woken up.

When it comes to dream recall, I'm not sure how much to work on that. As long as I'm not distracted by something else, I can usually remember two or three fairly long and complicated sequences of events. Whether these are all the dreams I've had that night or just a small fraction of them, I honestly don't know.

Anyway, I've always been very interested in dreams and will definitely be around and about here now and then.