I’ve always had them and I used to think it was something everybody did. Don’t remember where or when I first heard the term “lucid”.
I was in a bookstore and bumped into “Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming”, picked it up to see what it was about, and it made quite an impression. 
I had my first lucid dream like two days later.
Had some wierd dream. Decided to look into dreaming on google, and POOF!! im here.
I have just been interesting in dreaming in general for years. I’ve did research on brainwaves, stages of sleep, lucid dreaming, etc. Someone from another message board actually introduced me to this site.
After reading through the Table of Contents for a book about Mind Tricks, one line caught my eye.
How to Have Lucid Dreams
I was already interested in dreams, albeit passively. I casually turned to the page and was taken aback when I read the first paragraph.
Realize that you are dreaming… kissing your best friend’s wife… joy-riding in a Ferrari… insulting your boss…
My first thought: Sign me up! 
I proceeded to head to my best friend, Google. Ld4all was right at the top of the list of results, and from there I soaked up the dream guide, amazed that something this cool could exist and that no one I knew was aware of it.
Fast forward a few years later. I joined the forums after being welcomed by the most fantastic online and offline community I’ve ever seen and regularly post. Now that’s some good luck.
I’m a fan of Aphex Twin, and in a couple of his interviews, he mentions Lucid Dreaming, and how cool it is, and how a lot of his music is inspired by LDs. So I looked it up in google and found loads of sites, including this one, which is my fave so far.
In 2003 I heard about Lucid dreaming on a talk radio show. I did a search on Excite or Yahoo and found this site. Then I kinda gave up on it a couple of months later after only having 1 half-lucid dream. For some reason, I thought about this site again today and I am thinking about starting up my dream journal again.
In a roundabout way, Sonic Adventure DX was what led me to Lucid Dreaming. In the game, NiGHTS makes a couple cameos, and I looked up “NiGHTS into Dreams” on google, and found out that it was about two lucid dreamers and a Nightmaren. Later I found out that LDing was real and did some googling. A couple of links later, (after finding Stephen LaBerge’s Lucidity Institute) I found the Ld4All site, and the rest is history.
I first read about them a few years ago when Reader’s Digest did an article on them. I thought it was pretty interesting and started a dream journal, but kinda slacked off until last February when a really vivid nightmare got me thinking about it again.
same for me too although i googled dream control
I once realized I was dreaming in a nightmare and realized that I had full control over the dream. I then attempted to become lucid in a dream again and succeeded about a week later. I searched Google for information on conscious dreaming, and I came across some lucid dreaming information and LD4all.
That’s exactly what happened to me, down to the recurring nightmare. Well, except for two things: my recurring nightmare was actually a series of nightmares with the same basic theme. Also my friend mentioned lucid dreaming to me instead of the other way around (sort of)… so maybe it wasn’t the exact same thing.
A friend told me about them. Same day, I sarted keeping my Dream Journal 
My brother told me for about 1 or 2 years ago.
He: “Did you know you can controll your dreams?”
Me: “No. Is that a gift or something?”
He: “No. It is something you can teach yourself to do. It’s called Lucid Dream”
Me: “How do I get a lucid dream?!”
He: “I don’t know, but there was one guy…”
And he told about someone who had a LD. I was allready interested in dreams, and LD was even more fascinating.
Some few months later, I read about it on the internet. I saw a link to LD4all, and became more and more interested.
I read a topic in a swedish game-forum (Yeah I know but there’s categories like “General”, “Movie and Media”, “Programming and Graphic” and so on).
The topic was titled “Dreams” and contained pages of people talking about their dreams. One day someone posted (Could it been Arabinator?) about lucid dreaming and linked to this site. At first I thought it was like silly witch/wicca magic stuff but I kept reading (You must agree that the frontpage of this site doesn’t give the impression of containing something scientificly proved at all 
). Anyway, I read about lucid dreaming, found it to be incredibly interesting, FOUND THE FORUM (with you guys). And that was kind of what I needed to see I mean, a forum with over 10.000 members can’t stand for something not existing. Anyway, at the end of the day I had read about every article in the first 34 pages of google (Searching for lucid dreaming) and I was stuffed with lucid information and fact.
I think it’s Arabinator (Here, in this forum) I owe thanks to for writing that post about lucid dreaming.
I found a list on amazon with a title sth like “supercharge your mental abilities”.
2 of the stuff on the list were,Exploring the world of lucid dreaming by Dr.LaBerge,and waking life…
Curiosity,and the rest is history 
Another forum. 
I read about it once but didn’t investigate. My girlfriend has been an LDer since early childhood. Lately I’ve been learning a lot about Jung’s theories of the psyche. I made a post on my blog about a conversation I had with my girlfriend after she woke up from a nightmare. Our talk revolved around her dreams and lucid dreaming in general. That motivated her to start a blog about her dreams (she’s removed it since then) which motivated me to do a bit of research and start practicing LD-inducing techniques.
On another forum I’m on someone mentioned LDing and I was like," That sounds really cool."
After some searching on the internet I found this site, and decided to join.