If I dream I have a lucid dream, is this a lucid dream?

I know the title sounds rethorical, but tonight I hade a very very weird dream.

Not because of the contents, which were pretty random, but because I had a lucid dream within another dream I think. Or, at least, I "woke up" from the lucid into a regular dream, if I can say.

So, I was in this place with these people I know. The content of the dream is long and dramatic, anyway I somehow manage to understand I'm dreaming. I needed to focus on the dream to run some tests (touch things, focus on details, etc) so I closed my eyes and ordered them do disappear, and they did. Good, I'm both lucid and able to control, I think.
So I go around, touch some walls, rub my hands together and simple physics test. But I feel the dream fading, so I try to spin and find myself in another place. The dream got weirder: I was still lucid but unable to control the dream. Since I was on a sort of roller coaster, I quickly woke up.

But here comes the interesting part: I "woke up" into another dream. It wasn't a false awakening: it was a normal dream. The other false awakenings I had, I woke up in my bed, got up, made it to the table and start writing a dream before I realized I actually wasn't doing anything.
This time, I was at my dad's place (my parents are divorced), and the dream showed all the defects of a regular dream: illogical, blurry, space and time behaving strangely. It took me a while to realize I was dreaming again and actually wake up.

So long story short:
can I have a lucid dream "inside" a regular dream? Does it still count?
Or did I have a lucid dream and the regular dream counts as a false awakening?

Either it could just be loss of lucidity. It sounds like that to me. In that case you had a lucid dream which turned into a normal dream.

Or it could also have been that you briefly woke up from your first lucid dream, DEILDed back without remembering it, and then shortly after realized it was a lucid dream. In that case you had 2 lucid dreams.

OR that you were lucid in a dream, shortly lost lucidity, and then became lucid once more. That counts as one lucid dream.

I'll go with the second, except the second dream was not lucid. It was very clear, but I wasn't aware at all I was dreaming.

Hmm, I was hoping this would be more similar to an experience I had today.

The longest lucid dream I've ever had, where I retained complete calmness. I flew, had sex, did a shitload of stuff I've wanted to do in lucid dreams, except it feels... strange. I've had lucid dreams before, where I know completely of my real life, and it felt quite different to this one. In this specific dream, I remember pushing through the air during Superman flight, but there was a strange comparisson between this and the real world. I didn't feel like I was totally immersed in the dream, even though I could physically feel things. I'm considering that I dreamt of having a lucid dream, which is possible because I've dreamt of checking for dreamsigns, completely oblivious of my actual existance, as if I wasn't even thinking whilst doing it. However, I really do hope this wasn't a regular dream, as I strongly recall willingly doing everything.

Still, it just didn't feel the same as my other lucid dreams. Possibly because I kept my emotions so distant in comparisson to my previous experiences, it's almost as if I was a machine just ticking off things to do which my waking self had written down--but that's a bit poetic and exaggerated. A very difficult case to settle, for me.

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Originally Posted by Ippo

It wasn't a false awakening:

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I beg to differ.

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Originally Posted by Ippo

can I have a lucid dream "inside" a regular dream?

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In this sort of situation, you aren't really dreaming from within a dream, that is to say your dreaming self in the first dream doesn't fall asleep and dream, it's all one dream, false awakenings and all else. I.E. that only happens in Inception. False awakenings don't always begin with you in bed as if you just woke up. Often they end up being dream scene transitions, which can end your lucidity just as well.