A way to force a bit of lucid dreaming is to stay perfectly still, with your back on the bed and your arms on your sides and try to force yourself not to twitch or move when you feel an itch or something. It's just your brain checking if you are awake. It doesn't necessary work for everyone, but I like that whenever I dream like this, I do remember the dream, and I can remember I at least had consciousness in it.
Before this, I did however lucid dream quite some times, including dream control. The most interesting one I ever head was being chased by a zombie. I went in a store, and then I got lucid. I began throwing phones at it for some reason. When I am lucid, even if I do know I am lucid, I for some reason still do stupid stuff in dreams, and not try to control, when I am aware of controlling, I usually do it just fine without waking up.
