Hey, I was looking for information on lucid dreams, and found the site and these forums, and I had a few questions after looking over the site.

I suppose first i should tell you what happened to me, after only my 3rd time smoking marijuana (Is that legal on these forums, sorry if its not), I went to bed pretty high. That night I had what felt like the longest dream I've ever had, and I could remember every detail of it. Pretty fricken crazy, a family reunion, a pet turtle trapped in a reese cup. This leads me to my first question, I became aware while dreaming that I was dreaming, is this the only thing that seperates an average dream from a lucid one?

In the dream, I was going through my cabinet in my kitchen which was flooded with water, and i was trying to make room for my turtle (I dont even have a turtle....) and as I was taking all the soup out of the cabinet, my grandpa walked up to me and said, "Well, what are you doing? " And I asked myself this question, which made me go "huh?" and I more or less became conscious, but right when I realized this, I woke up. Is it common for begginners to wake up in lucid dreams?

Also, do pshycoactive drugs increase the chances of having lucid dreams (I know they make them weirder), or make dreams seem longer? Because I seem to always have weird crazy dreams each time I smoke.