Some may or may not find this helpful, I thought it was very interesting and proved to be GREAT practice.

After a few beers most people notice a drop in the consciousness. Most people don't really do much about it but people who are trying to lucid dream should notice this and attempt to pull themselves out of this state back to consciousness.

Here's what I've found to be great practice;
-Drink until your consciousness is only just impaired. Use to to attain lucidity of the world around you.
-That part's easy, step two is to drink more. Drinking more will push your consciousness further into the range of that of a dead squirrel. When your consciousness has gone further pull yourself out of it.
-Continue these steps for as long as you believe you should/can. The more you drink the more your mind will fade into the background, it's your job to pull it back to the frontlines. It's great practice, be warned though that you most probably will not be able to lucid dream the same night that you drank.

***Warning***
Whilst under the influence you will have moments when you're completely or nearly lucid. However, due to your state and not being in an actual dream (though it may feel like it) your consciousness will not last forever.
In lucid dreaming once you pull yourself out of the abyss and into the dream it's relatively easy to maintain that state of mind....not while drunk. You'll have moments when you're lucid but you'll soon find yourself having to pull yourself up again and again (though depends on how far gone you are). This is difficult but it does allow for even more practice.

Well, they're my ideas. What do you think? Ever experienced this before?