So far, I've had two "lucid dreams." However, the reason I put them in quotations is that I can never be sure if my dreams are really Lucid Dreams or just fake ones where I dream that I'm lucid. In the dreams, I "know" that I'm dreaming. I even tell my friend next to me that I'm in a Lucid Dream. (She happens to tell me that SHE'S in a lucid dream to, but deep in my mind I knew that she was just a figment of my imagination.)

However, I don't even think of doing a reality check. Instead, the first thing I did in both dreams was try to backflip, and fail. Then I try to fly, and that fails too. The only thing I managed to do last night was impress everyone at a party by moving a teddy bear across the table with my mind. (And it was hard to do...) It was a boring party, and I KNEW that I could teleport away if I wanted to, but I didn't. It just seems that I know I'm dreaming, but I don't seem to do anything logically. And pretty soon, everything just mushes away into a normal dream.

So I guess these are either just regular dreams where I dream I'm lucid, or something like a semi-lucid dream. In a real lucid dream, do you really act in total control like you would in waking life? And how do you achieve that?