Carlos Castñeda, wrote lots of books on lucid dream controls as taught by a yaqui indian call Don Juan Matus, to have over looked the original guru of lucid dreaming is an affront not only to Carlos Castñeda, but to all Latinos.
Hi maya0: welcome to the Straight Dope!
It is customary here to link to the article that you are commenting on:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/050805.html
You may also enjoy an article penned by Cecil on Carlos Castaneda:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020621.html
If you poke around these threads, you might notice that quite a few of us have some experience with lucid dreaming; not all of us have read about Castenada though.
Cecil’s article notes that the term was coined by Frederik van Eeden in 1913 and has been known for centuries. I speculate that there have been a number of lucid dreaming gurus.