What Lucid Dreaming really is?

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So I was thinking about what lucid dreaming really was and I recall trying it, putting the dots on my hand and checking it hundreds of times as a reality check for like a week, sure enough I had a dream where I realize I was in a dream and I still remember the dream, rather clearly too. But I was thinking that lucid dreaming is just you dreaming about you being able to control your dreams so you dream about it. I remember poking walls and stuff in alot of dreams due to performing reality checks all the time after reading about lucid dreaming, but even when I realized I was dreaming...or dreamed that I realized that I was dreaming, waking up and feeling like I wasn't really in control of what was happening, that I still had boundaries. Which made me think that lucid dreaming was just you dreaming of lucid dreaming, but that wouldn't explain remember it so clearly. TL;DR confused X_X EDIT: So i'm new here I just wanted to share this with some people but I see theres alot of threads on "We only THINK we're Lucid Dreaming", when I "Lucid Dream" I wake up and its just another memory along with everything else in my life, but it sticks unlike other dreams? Also I only remember dreams when I sleep in, from like 7-10 AM, is this normal?