I stumbled upon this site a while ago, back when I first started looking into dreams. I got lazy and stopped bothering with trying to lucid dream though, so it quickly faded from my memory. Yet the concept still fascinated me, and remained a theme that would appear in many of my stories and books, often as a large part of the story. I first learned of its existence a few years ago, when I saw a list of names beside a friend's bed. She told me that they were the names of horses in her dreams. Then went on how she was able to control hers, to a point where she'd re-written the entire Harry Potter series with her in it. Needless to say, I was impressed. As it turned out, it's more common than I'd thought, despite it not being talked about much. Even my brother and father are lucid dreamers. My brother actually thought that it was normal, and that everyone could do it. Alas, such is not the case. Now that it's summer vacation and I actually have time to get a healthy amount of sleep, I thought I'd try learning again. This time I'm actually keeping a dream journal, encouraged by another friend that's trying it too. So here's hoping that I'm successful. I look forward it.