i lucid dream too. But my lucid dreaming tends to happen towards the end of my sleep rather than the beginning. I always had really vivid dreams as a child (my dad is the same) and frequent vivid and very awful nightmares. Before i took up weed, people told me i laugh in my sleep, sometimes hysterically and scarily.
I don't laugh in my sleep anymore, even when i don't have weed but i rarely if ever remember dreaming if i have been smoking. I always remember dreams if i haven't.
Recently I had a break from it, and one night was dreaming about mychoroizal (sp) fungi and microherds in soil in my upcoming grow...
then i dreamed they came out of the pots, grew, escaped from the growroom and were starting to smother me in bed.. woke up, ran across the room, and turned the light on in like less than a second.. never moved so fast in my life lol
I do miss the lucid dreams i can control, but don't miss the nightmares i had and the waking up shaking in a bed drenched by cold sweats, sat bolt upright.. i miss the weird, but not unpleasant dreams i had very occasionally.