[quote:275abd4fd5="sillysyban"]Hey good people,  Do any of you guys and girls have lucid dreams (When you know your dreaming and can control the dreamstate)  I know a fair few people who enjoy tripping, and the people who do seem to be more prone to lucid dreaming. I am wondering if there is a connection there?[/quote:275abd4fd5]    I had my first lucid dream spontaneously when I was about 23 before I had ever tried any psychoactives aside from the socially sanctioned alcohol, nicotine, caffeine (however it just occurs to me that this might have been shortly after my first encounter with cannabis...)      I didn't have another one for years until after my first encounters with psilocybin mushrooms, after which I started having intermittent lucid dreams. I currently have about 3-8 lucid dreams a year, mostly when I've been thinking about it during the day, just as you report. Control is usually very poor.  I'm sure the frequency could be increased just by regularly thinking about it during the day, just as is recommended in most books about it.    There is some interesting literature about the connections between lucid dreaming and other altered states of consciousness (like obe's and nde's) including a new paradigm on consciousness by Donald DeGracia, who's an (assistant?) prof. of psychology at Wayne State University. Checkout    http://www.geocities.com/ddegraci/  especially  http://www.geocities.com/octanolboy/paradigms.pdf  http://www.geocities.com/octanolboy/Dreams_GWS.pdf    He also offers a free e-book on techniques to achieve lucid dreaming/astral projection (which in his model is the same thing):  http://www.geocities.com/octanolboy/do_obe.pdf  http://www.geocities.com/octanolboy/do_obe.zip    see ya' in hyperspace...    -z