Quote Originally Posted by Serenity View Post
Don't confuse dream control with lucidity. If you understand that you're watching a dream, but are powerless to do anything about it, that is still a lucid dream.
And that works the other way around too. I've had a dream with all the control you'd expect from a lucid but none of the realization. Lucidity refers to enlightenment. So if you KNOW you're dreaming, whether you're able to act on that knowledge or not, you were still lucid.