Is this a Lucid Dream?

Or is it just a mind trick? So I was in a cult, people were surrounding me chanting the same words the reptites chanted for Magus/Ozzie's return in Chrono Trigger. I looked around, I noticed where the chanting noise came from and did a reality check by plugging my nose and could still breathe (but could still feel myself plugging my nose), suddenly I was "lucid". I decided to do more reality checks of my own. I put my hand on a wall and hoped it went through and it did, I casted fire out of my hands, but I tried summoning my own sword by yelling "Summon sword!" That did not work, I tried another phrase "Give me a sword!" That didn't work either. Even summoning people didn't work either as I called out their names, and even looked behind, called out their names and turned back. I really wanted to kill everyone who captured me in the crazy cult, So in desire to destroy them I tried casting fire but somehow I couldn't except for the last time when I did, there was no harm done on them. They didn't even flinch when they were caught on fire.

So I coudln't even kill the guys so I decided to try to switch dream scenes by said someting along the lines of "Next scene!" but nothing happened. More people came in dressed in black. I ran to them and asked how I could summon things and they told me to "Stop ruining this dream" then took my lucidity away and pushed me into lava with the two other people I tried to summon. Before my feet could even touch the lava, I was transported to a different dream. I noticed one of the cult members in the back of the building in this dream but as I wasn't in control of myself, I just looked at them and ignored them.

So in a nutshell, I couldn't really summon much of anything, the dream characters took my lucidity away and killed me, every one of my reality checks worked, and after waking up I could almost remember everything about the dream. I've also took a sleeping pill before bed and did some sort of mantra telling myself that "I will lucid dream tonight".

The only requirement for a dream to be lucid is that you recognized that you were dreaming - so it definitely sounds like you had a lucid dream, congrats!

The level of control you have in a lucid can vary, especially when you're first starting out. Luckily, there are ways to improve your control and stability of the dream (check out this tutorial in the Wiki). But most of that just comes with time and practice.

One way to decide might be to ask yourself whether or not you remembered having a clear, unambiguous (even if somewhat weak) notion, during the dream, that you were experiencing something other than an actual waking-life event. If so, chances are that you were indeed lucid.

The amount of control you have in a dream is a completely separate thing from lucidity. The only way to lose lucidity in a dream is to forget that you are dreaming; the only way a DC can “take away” lucidity is by distracting or confusing you into thinking that you are somehow not dreaming.

Dude, dream conjuration is hard, alright? Either that, or super easy depending on how you think. Here's something I use in dreams when I want to make something appear: I look for a corner, and then think without a doubt: "This thing I want will be just around the corner", then I turn the corner and BAM! It's there. You can do it with anything really, maybe a closed box for instance.

I heard about this trick from somewhere around this forum, though I can't recall where, and it worked for me like a charm.

Absolutely a lucid dream. You just need to work on your control.

Practice! Eventually you'll be mowing down those cultists with a flick of your wrist.