lucidity or awareness?

okay so i just starting attempting to lucid dream again. About 3 days ago i started my second dream journal and my dream recall is fairly good i would say, i have remembered 1-3 dreams per night these last fews days. However this time around i know about dream signs and the RC's. My dreams have been normal dreams and then in the dreams i look at my hands and question if its a dream or not and sure enough my hands are transparent and wavy. so i become aware its a dream and i can somewhat control them, but there were things i couldnt do such as fly or make things appear, all i could do in one dream was control myself nothing great tho. However my previous dream was just a normal dream but i realized it was a dream and excited myself into waking up, im laying in my bed and i see a bug on my bedpost so i swat at it, only to find it move really weird, so i told myself to look at my hands and sure enough they were wavy, so i told myself, woah a false awakening.. i have control and im happy to get outta bed realizing its a dream, however when i move to get out of bed, my movement was very limited almost as if the sheets were weighing me down, i did this until i was basically crawling out of bed and hit the floor, when i was on the floor there wasnt much i could do. i remember lying there in the dream and just told myself to wake up and sure enough i opened my eyes to find myself lying in my bed, this time waking up in real life. My questions are were these lucid dreams since i could control them? and why was my movement so limited since in my mind i knew i was dreaming. any opinion would be appreciated.

If you are in knowing control of your thoughts and actions then you are lucid. Awareness is when some part of you knows its a dream, but you can only observe your thoughts and actions. So it sounds like you were lucid, don't expect to be able to fly and have any power once you are lucid, abilities can be hard and should not even be attempted until you can maintain lucidity for more than few minutes. I've had false awakenings similar to yours, my assumption is that sometimes muscle paralysis starts to wear off prematurely before a dream ends so you start to experince your muscles attempting to work whie they are still nearly paralyzed, and this sensation crosses into the dream and manifests as your dream self being partially paralyzed.

lucid4sho pretty much hit the nail on the head there. yes they were lucid dreams, because you are aware that you're in a dream. as far as not being able to do anything great, powers and stuff, you'll have to work at it. I had no trouble flying in my previous ld's but everyone is different. Also with manifesting things in your dream at will, it wont always work. read billy bobs tutorial for a really good lesson on thathttp://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=38954. FA's can be pretty bizzare but can help you as well to become lucid. One time it happened to me 3 times, but on third i knew it and started to fly around.

Technically you don't have to be in control of anything, not your thoughts OR your actions. To be in a lucid dream... you simply have to realize that you are in a dream.

Lots of people have lucid dreams where, for example, they cannot stop thinking about trying to have dream sex. Even though they have a set of lucid dream goals to accomplish, and they remind themselves of this, they inevitably end up thinking about and engaging in dream sex despite their best efforts not to.

And like you said, you were in a lucid dream, but couldn't even get out of your bed. That is certainly a case of not being in control of your actions (which were fairly simple) while you were lucid.