Muddyalcapones' Dream Journal

I had a dream last night, but I'm not sure if it was lucid or not. First It was a nightmare, there were monster-like things with hooks and blades for arms, and grotesque features. There were several normal people and they were all being chased too. First i was myself, and me and a black woman (she looked like the woman who worked the fax machine in "Air Force One", but i haven't seen that movie for months.) baracaded ourselves in an office suite and started to work the lift that would take us up to the roof. ThenI was that crazy character from the movie tremors (the gun-nut with the elephant rifle), but even thogh i was him, i was watching from the third person. I had almost run out of ammo and I tried to make a joke to one of the monsters that was chasing me. He mentioned something about the cards in my hand. when i looked at them, there were two black two's and two of a really wierd symbol. The monster said that the monsters respected the keeper hand of cards and that they would obey me. So I said "I want all of you to disapear, and it half-worked, they turned into giant playing cards that fell flat on the ground. then i wished the cards would dissapear and they did. after that there was a giant TV on the wall and I said "TV on!" and it turned on. I woke up shortly after that. So here's my delimma, I obviously remember being in control of my dream, but I wasn't aware that it was a dream, just that i had control. and the things i did with my control didn't alter anything other than what the dream told me it could ("we respect the keeper cards") was this a lucid dream? or did i merely have a regular dream in which i had a level of control?