When you Lucid Dream... are you so conscious in that it is amost as if you are actually awake... and you are conscious in this sense that you realise you are dreaming.. and that you can control your actions, and what you want to happen next in the dream?

I'm sure I've read that it's all true... but since I've never had a dream anything like Lucid then I find it real hard to comprehend the possibility of it. Makes it all the more exhilarating, just thinking about the experience . Goddamn I want one so bad.