Learn lucid dreaming

A few tips:

http://www.wikihow.com/Lucid-Dream

And apparently, eating cheese before bed helps induce dreams in general. Might want to research that one yourself, I haven’t looked into it much. Could just be an age-old myth like it sounds, but I’ve been told it causes your stomach to start working or something, which…ehh, not so sure.

I’ve only been in control of my dreams twice (only counting those instances that lasted for more than a few seconds). I can’t say I was necessarily “practising” lucid dreaming fully at the time either, but I knew it was possible.
Though I might not have experienced much lucidity in actual dreams yet, I have had many a “hypnagogic hallucination” and been trapped in “sleep paralysis” on many occasions (which doesn’t scare me so much anymore).

Here’s a link on lucid dreaming:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream#Wake-initiation_of_lucid_dreams_.28WILD.29

And if you experience the hypnagogic hallucinations and sleep paralysis, here’s an interesting fictional interpretation (folklore):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_%28folklore%29

There are devices you can buy that apparenty aid in keeping you aware well asleep (a blindfold you wear, that blinks before your eyes as you sleep). I’ve thought about it…but, meh…I’d imagine you could pick this skill up eventually.

It seems like quite the experience; imagine being able to do it each time you sleep? I wonder if you’d become mentally exhausted after a while…

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oneironaut