Quote Originally Posted by Sushi View Post
Sometimes I dream and act like I'm lucid, but without the actual awareness. Instead, the "lucidity" is a part of the dream plot, and may or may not involve me doing things that I'd actually do while lucid. I don't really spend too much time on decision-making in these dreams because my dream-self already knows what it wants to do, since it's just like a normal dream.

Either that, or I'm aware in an actual lucid. Or, of course, I'm just having a regular dream. That's the extent of my experiences.
Fantastic you have successfully experienced and grasped the concept of simulated lucidity. You see there are so many out there who claim to be pro lucid dreamers however they also include their simulated lucid dreams in their actual lucid dream count. Some people just want to seem cool and say "Ive had 200 lucid dreams in 1 year" which is quite unlikely. People are scared to admit simulated lucid dreams exist since it means they will likely have to divide their lucid dream count by 5.

For example I state that I have had 7 true lucid dreams... I could say I have had over 3,000 if I go by the definition of "knowing your dreaming within a dream" since I had nightmares every night straight for 10 years where I "know I was dreaming " and could only awaken once I either killed myself or got viciously attacked by a nightmare creature I called "the wild cat". People need to understand that you can dream that you are lucid without being lucid.