Twilight to Dusk

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There is an old saying "It is always darkest before dawn", and it seems this way with our dreamland hours. During this part our time is when we can learn to lucid dream, and at times enter into those deeper states of meditation without truly sleeping. In this case, I want to focus on lucid dreaming, and the things connected at this in-between stage. We've all done it, even if we weren't aware. We are sitting comfortably in our garden and begin to doze, but somehow have the full world in our mind that we believe we are awake. We've had those moments when in the middle of a very good dream that we hear a child crying that we cannot locate, or hear an annoying deafening alarm that we cannot seem to find a way to turn off in the dreamworld. We wake to the sound of our child crying out for us, or the alarm forcing us into reality. We've all experienced those lucid dreams in which we suddenly make ourself fly, overcome an obstacle, or do something that makes us now an active part of our dream world, rather then the observer. I've had my share of both, and some repetetive. I've had experiences in which I run through the same scenario in my home until I finally at last wake up. I've had dreams where something odd was making a crying sound, something that shouldn't be, only to awake to my daughter crying for a diaper change and bottle. I've also had those dreams in which I figure out I'm dreaming and force myself to fly. I always find those dreams the most interesting. Just the other night I had a dream in which I was attacked by a rather large monster looking guy (ok, a cross between Meatloaf and Jack Black-but that says enough lol), when I suddenly became aware of the dream I used what I had learned in martial arts that week within my dream. Have you experienced these twilight to dusk experiences? Have you experienced a lucid dream? Do you have good techniques you'd like to share to help others learn to lucid dream? Namaste-Anora