Originally Posted by
The Cusp
I'm not saying I'm a master or anything, but when you know waking and dreaming are the same thing, it can really screw with your lucids. Often I'll be dreaming and notice my rules of dream control in action, which tips me off and reminds me of the control I'm capable of. But since those rules of dream control work the same way in RL, I mistake the dream for RL. Technically, I can't call that a lucid, even though I wouldn't have done anything differently had I thought it was a dream.