I see what you mean and completely agree with you in the fact that we should completely abandon asking the question about "if it was a lucid dream" since only you could know. I also agree with you that we shouldn't be concerned aboud the amount of lucid dreams but rather the quality. But as for the fact that if lucid dreams exist, you are completly off the mark. For most people (actually all but you) a lucid dream is a dream in which you recognize that you're dreaming. The name "Lucid dream" means nothing to us (some of us may not even know what "lucid" means). It was just the name that the first person called it. If they started calling them "sepcial dreams" thats what we'd be calling them. And as for your thoughts of defining lucid dreaming, your essentially saying that nothing can be defined (which I actually agree with since there are way too many exceptions to everything). So as far as I, and everyone else on this board, the way we define it, "Lucid dreaming" exists.