Has anyone here ever done Lucid Dreaming?

For those who don't know what it is, it is were you lay in your bed and stay still but keeping yourself awake. After about 15-20 minutes you feel twitches is your body and eventually you can close your eyes and you will be able to control your dreams.

I'm no expert on it, so please correct me if i have missed something or got something wrong :D it's really something i would like to try but would love to know if someone has tried it before i lay on my bed for 15 minutes and nothing actually happens xD

I used to lucid dream a lot in my thirties. I got out of the habit when I went under a lot of stress.

I would lay still and meditate letting my mind wander. Eventually, my daydreams turned into sleep dreams and I could control what happened in the dreams. With practice, I could use that mental state to organize my day, go through alternate scenarios, and generally do several times more productive "thinking" than I could awake. Eventually, you have to awaken and the dream visions disappear.

Was the stress cause from lucid dreaming? or did you just stop because there was alot on your mind?

I've done it a couple of times, when you lay down you start to get these urges to move when a part of your body starts to tingle or feel like you need to scratch an itch ~the trick is RESIST THE URGE LOL (as hard as it is). it scared me because then after you bypass all of that its like your chest collapses because your body falls asleep and your mind doesnt, then the dreams start if you dont fall into REM sleep, its hard to keep the mind awake, while the body is asleep & sometimes your eyes will twitch, its a test your body does to see if your mind is still awake.

It sounds amazing! Really want to try it out at some point :D

Its cool, just make sure you dont do it alot though, but one of the best Lucid Dreams I had was when one night I was playing Final Fantasy, and then I laied down and the next thing I know was that I was in a Lucid Final Fantasy dream where I was a lieutenant in a Chocobo army(LOL nerd alert!), I was able to make every decision I made(unlike my regular dreams that are more like a movie that just plays) and I felt like I was outside even though I was inside under my covers and I knew I was dreaming for sure lol.

My mother had cancer.

Im interested but have'nt had the guts yet

The thing about lucid dreaming is that it is practicing - though unknowingly - controlling your less conscious areas of the brain.
I've been lucid dreaming since I was a little kid, and this is due to a thyroid disorder that causes my dopamine production to increase.
There's a lot of chemicals that go into dreaming, as it turns out, and many things that can trigger their production or stoppage.
The trouble that I have is that the my production has caused some side-effects that I have to be wary of - namely that I'll start hallucinating after only a short time (around the 30 hour mark) without sleep, the other major one being that the relative time between the dream and reality is about 30 days for about every real world hour.
Some people encounter another issue called "Sleep Paralysis", which is a chemically induced state of terror from one's own mind. Terror bad enough to cause you not to move an inch, which can sometimes leave a lingering memory of the event.

those into lucid dreaming.. dont forget the "REALITY CHECK" thing, after doing it okey.... :)