Ok, so I'm a big fan of Two Steps From Hell (if you don't know who they are, look them up). A few minutes ago, I was listening to one of their newest songs, and I just felt enraptured by the incredible music. The vocals towards the end seemed like a voice calling to me from a dream, it is just so good to my ears.

Then I had this weird idea: why not see if it could push me into a lucid dream? Everything's against it, really. I haven't been in bed yet, I've been looking at a computer screen, and this hasn't been a very active day, so I'm not even super tired.

But anyway, I started the song, turned off the PC monitor, and then listened and visualized myself flying over a bunch of dreamy islands in time to the music. When the main vocal came in, I started putting a ton of effort into it, so much that my eyes were moving super fast, almost like in REM, and I started to see a bunch of flashing lights.

Then, in the darkness, there was a kind of depth that wasn't there at first. I didn't feel like I was seeing my eyelids, but a vast, open area. And suddenly, the blue woman from the picture in the video materialized in front of me, lips moving accordingly to the song. She reached a hand out towards me, and I tried to reach my 'dream hand' out, but unfortunately the moment we made contact, the unstable image of my hand disappeared, and in my distraction, I also lost all visuals of the woman aside from her hand, and before long that was gone, too, as the song ended.

None of this was as clear as a dream...it was more like highly detailed HI (hence the dark red color, which I use to signify HI in my DJ). But the thing is, I was anything but relaxed, I hadn't given my mind a chance to even begin the sleep cycle...and yet I could get all this imagery!

My question for discussion is, mainly: would it be possible to have lucid dream-ish experiences on the spot, doing things similar to this? I mean, your brain sees and feels and all that based on electrical signals...with the proper self-discipline, couldn't one force himself to perceive those things like a dream just by closing his eyes to shut himself off from the real world?