Thread: Only lucid in certain types of dreams?

As I recall the times that I have become lucid, I am realizing that it is only certain types of dreams that I become lucid in. I rarely EVER become lucid during an action-packed or epic dream. As long as there is a constant storyling going on, I don't seem to ever become lucid.

It is usually the dreams where things have cooled down, the storyline is idle, that I become lucid. I think this is because it is sort of a break in the dream, and it gives your consciousness a chance to survey the scene and think about what is going on. Of course there are always dreamsigns, and occasionally during an action-packed dream a dreamsign will appear or occur and I will suddenly become lucid, but then after that point, many elements of the plot disappear.

QUESTION: Have any of you ever noticed that you only become lucid in certain types of dreams, maybe ones that have an idle storyline, or something else? Or I am the only one?

...The reason that I thought of this is because a couple nights ago I was having a wild action dream where I was in some type of huge, tall building, escaping people. Then it turned into a huge ship, at least 500 feet high. It was at night at there were explosions all over in the air. I stood at the edge and jumped and plummetted into the water almost facefirst. After impact I remember thinking "man, if this weren't a dream, that would have hurt." But I wasn't lucid, I never continued the thought, it was just there. Then I started swimming, and I had some gunboat and I was shooting other boats. Then, oddly, I saw some weird bubble in the air and it had a person's face in it and then it zoomed in to me, and all the sudden I was looking at photographs. It was apparently showing me digital edits of pictures. I heard the word "blue" and a picture would take on a blue tone, then "red" and the picture would be red-toned. Then one was blurred on the edges with a person sitting in radiant light, it was spectacular.

Then I woke up. I couldn't BELIEVE I hadn't become lucid. So I began to wonder... Do you just not become lucid during active storyline dreams?.... who knows.