I'm relatively new around here, so I decided I might as well put something interesting into my quasi-introduction thread.

I dreamed that I was walking into a small, but well lit room, and on the east wall there was a small dial, that had small notches and was labeled one to ten. I went straight up to it and did a reality check, it failed, I couldn't breathe through my nose. I turned the dial up to the 1 notch, and did another RC, it failed too. I kept turning it, and each time it failed. I kept thinking "huh, I'm not dreaming now, but maybe I'll be dreaming next time". Finally I turned the dial to its final position and did an RC, it worked, and I immediately became lucid, upon which I did all of the normal lucid things.

From what I've read this seems to be fairly uncommon, has anyone else had an experience like this?