The only enjoyment that comes out of lucid dreams are maintaining your sleep status, while knowing you're asleep, and controlling your dream to act out your desires in a realistic setting.

Simply becoming lucid while dreaming, but having no control or direction with it, is kind of a waste.

Next time you become lucid, instead of trying to wake up, try manipulating your dream reality. Do whatever you want. Break any and all laws. Fly. Turn into a cheeta and run full speed after prey.
The benefits of lucid dreams are not just that you realize you're dreaming, but that you're able to take control of the dream and act out your fantasies in the most real way possible, next to acting them out in real life.

It's natures way of releasing steam, letting us venture, letting us explore our own desires, while all in the safety of our own head.

When you have a lucid dream like that, you wake up feeling fulfilled.

ya, but i had to finish my homework, i wasn't supposed to be sleeping at all!

Lucid Dreaming
 

Lucid dreaming has always been an area of interest for me, and since the film 'Inception' it's popularity has boosted. The idea of being able to control dreams to me is just amazing and so recently I've decided to make a real effort to try it, so I'm trying to better my dream recall.

So can anyone here lucid dream? Or is anyone else trying?

Speak to Duga. He knows how.

I have had a couple of them, not through trying. They're really annoying because I just woke up once I realised yeah, this is a dream. I don't see the benefit to it really.. It's something that's always interested me. Dreaming in general.

Well for me I'd just like to be able to fly and stuff, have a bit of fun. But I suppose for a more practical use you could study or something? Would be a good use if you could revise for an exam in your sleep, I dunno if that's possible though.

I couldn't do anything, I couldn't manipulate the dream in any way. What happened was, before I went to sleep - I spoke to an old friend and she gave me her number, I saved it and went to sleep. In my dream, I dreamt she text me. And I knew I was dreaming, it was like I was awake with my eyes closed. I couldn't do anything, it was a bit shit.

Yeah, I'm often aware of my dreaming, but I've never really been able to control my dreams. Usually I just wake up.

I'm pretty sure I've had several lucid dreams, because they always have a recurring theme: someone is trying to kill me and will kill me if I don't do something. It always feels like I'm sitting in a horror movie and yelling instructions at the person on the screen (which is me). They're nightmares, which apparently lucid dreaming is good for because you can control what's going on. Sometimes I'd have these really awful nightmares that would scare the ever living **** out of me, but I knew it was a dream and I'd say to myself "if I just close my eyes really tight, it will change", and it did. Weird though, I'll have to try it again sometime soon

^You really should do something other than closing your eyes, you're missing out. And what you're describing is very similar to sleep paralyses.

Btw, there's already a Lucid Dream thread.

Is there? I searched for "lucid" and that found nothing. I've seen a thread on dreams but that's more about general dreams whereas this thread is about lucid dreams and how to do them.

And yeah, lucid dreaming can be used as a treatment for chronic nightmares and stuff.