I've only had one lucid dream where I gained dream control and didn't 'Over excite' myself into waking up. In it I used the force and made my own secret lair atop snowy mountains so in short it was pretty awesome. This was when I first began to investigate means of having lucid dreams as I hadn't really been able to do it with such clarity and ease since that night. Every time I've become lucid in a dream since then it has always been close to the 'end' or I was unable to gain control.

Were these just dreams about lucid dreams? If such things even exist?

And why is it that my clearest most powerful lucid dream came to me prior to me even knowing what they were?