So I've been working with lucid dreaming only for a month so far but have found something interesting other newbees might be interested in.
I was talking to my friend who recently quite smoking and she said that while she was using "The Patch", in other words the Nictotine patch step 1 21mg Stop smoking aid, she found that she was having consistent lucid dreaming. So being the curious guy I am I decided to try it and found some Really interesting results.
I Too began to have more lucid dreams. Or to be more specific the patch has helped me to be more aware in my dreams, not necessarily Lucid. See I understand that Nicotine has the effect to keep one's heart rate a little more up, and so that's what I started to think may be happening. Since the nicotine through the patch, is given to u consistently throughout the night I believe that although it is not enough to keep me up it may be the reason why I am more "up" in my dreams.
Now don't get me wrong, I HATE CRUTCHES. But i'm willing to use one if I can't walk at all to teach me to walk, so to speak. So first and formost I would like to say that the only True way of having consistent Lucid Dreams is to keep a dream journle and really stick to remembering your dreams, as many as you can, everynight (but don't be to hard on yourself) and to do Reality Checks consistently during the day and etc. This way once you kind of get use to being aware in your dream and developing your own path to actually recognizing this may be a dream and doing R.C.s to prove it you'll be able to do it without the patch, well at least I'm 99% sure, haven't gotten that far yet.
So just thought some people who are in a place where they try and try and just can't seem to be in their dreams enough at night to recognize they might need to do a Reality Check might want to try this.
I would also like to Sternly Stress that I've had at least 2 Lucid dreams in the last few weeks WITHOUT the patch doing the methods descibed on this and all the other web sites (M.I.L.D., not yet W.I.L.D. but hoping) as well as Dream Yoga (may seem hypocritical but I'm do lucid dreaming for spiritual reasons.) Also that addiction REALLY is cruddy (to put it very mildly). But just wanted to put that out there.