I recently compared how vivid, complex, and diverse the dream world is; when I am semi lucid and non lucid to when I am lucid.

When lucid, I find that I often have to struggle to keep the world from destabilizing, and I have to create new environments from memory. When non-lucid, environments are always large, and detailed with people, plants, signs etc.

The only metaphor that comes to mind is going from HD to SD. (SD being lucid). Is my conscious mind lacking in the skills to create dream world environments?