Help! Not quite sure if lucid dream or normal dream?

Well, this is my second thread on this forum site, and this is my third lucid dream since I began. I haven't had a lucid in over a week due to busy in life, but suddenly this morning I woke up really early, so decided to WBTB.

I thought hard about new york going to bed, and I began a dream in NYC. I don't remember all of my lucid dream, but is that normal?

It was a very long and quite vivid lucid dream. I'll give you the highlights that I remembered.

* I was in New York at night. I remember starting off in an alley, and I remembered once reading I should fly up really high and look down.
For some reason though, I didn't think of flying, but instead I began climbing metal poles on the side of a building. Is this due to lack of lucidity?

*I never seemed to get to the top of my climbing, but once I thought hard about it, I eventually got there.

*My goodness. I was at the top of a building, and I looked down. The most beautiful sight I've ever seen in a lucid. The city at night was SO amazing I almost woke up, but was able to stay lucid (I'll explain later).

*I jumped off the building and hit the ground painlessly, and then opened my eyes, but quickly closed them and returned back into lucid state.

*I was in renaissance era, and I attempted to fly. I flew some, but it felt like a weight was pulling me down, and eventually I gave up.

*I tried eating some mashed potatoes that was sitting out. It was good, but nothing as amazing as I expected it to be.

* Thats all I can remember.

What is weird was, whenever I was loosing lucidity, instead of spinning, I'd quickly rub my hands together, or I'd open my eyes really wide and rub my hand against an object.

I don't know if I was fully lucid or what, because I didn't feel like I had complete mental control. I sort of went along with the dream, following where it took me, not making any major decisions. Maybe this is due to my inexperience? And the parts of the dream I forgot, is that normal?



Important to note, some things didn't seem completely real. I didn't hear anything, I only felt something when I expected it, I didn't smell anything either. I only saw.

Also, some minor details would go unnoticed. For example, I wouldn't remember sitting in the chair, I'd just get there.

If you are conscious of it being a dream, then it is considered a lucid dream, regardless of whether or not you have control. I've had lucid dreams where I'm just taken along for the ride and watch things play out without my control, even though I know I'm dreaming. ...I even had one just last night where I spent a little bit of my LD with no control whatsoever, so it's pretty common.

But you seem like you had a little bit of control, since you remembered to stabilize yourself when you started losing lucidity.

Also, you can forget parts of lucid dreams just as you would regular dreams, or forget them entirely. ...which always sucks. I wonder how many times I've gone lucid just to not remember it when I wake up? And forgetting minor details is normal, too. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've remembered my lucids and had no idea how I went from one scene to another.