Ah, yes, when I first learned to lucid dream I used to have those barely lucid dreams where I would think: "I am floating, this must be a dream, but I could float even if it were not a dream," and then I would just continue to float pathetically. Now those were lucid dreams, but my awareness was so low that I would call them barely lucid. It took me a lot of effort to move beyond that stage to a higher level of lucid awareness, but once I did, it was like night and day, and the difference between non-lucid dreams and these barely lucids was smaller than the difference between the barely lucids and the full lucids I later had - the additional awareness and added control made all the difference! Although frankly at this point I would even welcome a barely lucid, but don't tell that to my mind, since I have been telling it I expect to experience eating chocolate and then visiting the Taj Mahal in a lucid dream tonight.