This morning I discovered one of the most profound tools for lucid dreaming, and perhaps consciousness as well.
I was having a very strange dream, where I was around a lot of different friends in a somewhat futuristic, authority ruled environment. I decided to see if I could re-experience a moment, and remembered that I was in a dream, despite the fact that normally this excitement of realizing you're in a stable LD wakes you up, my determination to experiment kept me asleep, while semi-conscious of the real world, I think determination can provide an extremely stable dream environment. Back to the actual event, we were surrounded by computers of sorts and televisions, and books/other stuff. Beside me (as I was wishing for some form of dream control) I picked up a remote, and in full lucidity in this LD I solely believed that the remote can act as a tool for my dream control, and as I thought of it, it read "Rem-o-Time" like remote of time or something, I pressed "pause" and everyone/everything in the dream paused, completely frozen and still the entire dream seemed to be stuck as the button was pushed down, and I kept pressing it on and off. If you've ever seen the movie DARK CITY you will understand how profound the implications of this are. The strangest part of all this is the stability of the dream when time isn't present, time seems to destabilize my dreams, but when it's frozen everything is as clear as waking day. The reason this is profound, is because if you EVER try this you will see things in a new way, having control of time, is literally having control of events, and this brings a completely new perspective about everything.
One strange thought about all this, and you'd know where i'm getting at if you've ever had sleep paralysis, is that you can become just as lucid in "waking life" as you do in dreams, people are always asleep, and if they could become lucid, they could do things beyond our sleeping limits. Becoming lucid and thinking of a time remote could provide an escape out of this time trap.