I dream, and I have mastered the rare art of controlling my dreams, the holy grail known as "lucid dreaming". One of my favorite subject is dreams, I have always been fascinated with them. So, I started the path to lucid dreaming a few years back. It takes a long while to master it, but now I have the power to turn a nightmare into a heroic dream of flying and telekinetic abilities. 
My favorite way to induce a lucid dream is to call a false awakening and use the differences I have repeatedly introduced into my memory to a real awakening. I now know when an awakening is false and thus, I know that I am dreaming.
Tell me if you wanna know more. I'm gonna continue when I have the time. 
That's a great post, Slasher. Just the kind I was looking for. Seems like this is going to be a great thread. I haven't mastered controlling my dreams yet. Every time I am on verge of realizing that I might be dreaming, I wake up. So I am unable to manipulate my dreams because I can't continue. Another thing that's holding me back is my fear of the great unknown - as I am trying to go beyond the lucid dream part and perhaps, experience something greater. I do have this spontaneous thing going on but I am just too scared to go through it, so I do everything to wake up. So I think my first step should be just to master my dreams first - like you do if you can guide me how to do it.
Also, in dreams, I am constantly in the future and sometimes perhaps in parallel dimension or other dimension. Those are not all too bad; in fact, some them are really great. I've only had nightmares when I had to take a sleeping pill or allergy pills that make you drowsy. Alcohol does the same so I try to stay away from all these substances. Drugs have been always a very big no no for me. Interestingly enough, the nightmares always happen the following nights.
I have another interesting thing happening from time to time and I have yet to figure it out. I don't know why it happens or what its meaning. I've read so many things about dreams and this piece I have yet to come across.
Btw, I don't take dreams as just dreams. To me they are so much more than that.