^^ Not so obviously, I think, Alex.
Respectfully, lucidity really has nothing to do with clarity or realism in a dream. Even consciousness is alive and well in a non-lucid dream (it is the higher-level conscious state of waking-life self-awareness that defines a LD, and not consciousness itself).
Yes, once lucid you can certainly make your dreams "more real," or improve clarity, but you can also be fully lucid in the dullest, least real of dreams -- just as you can be in extremely vivid dreams without being the least bit lucid. In other words, contrary to the popular assertions on these forums, lucidity by itself has nothing to do with the quality of your dreams... you can certainly improve that quality once lucid, but your dream will operate as presented until you make the improvements. That said:
MemeViews: Yes, what you experienced was a state of lower-level, or perhaps incomplete lucidity. It was incomplete because what was missing was access to memory.
Because you could not remember that your waking-life room only had one window, it would make perfect sense that two windows are the norm -- because in the dream two windows is the norm. In a dream, your entire world is never more than a few minutes old, so your dream bedroom had two windows since the dawn of your dreamworld's history; your dream might even include false memories about those two windows that confirm that they were always there.
Those "historical facts" can linger after you become aware that you are dreaming, because the presence of your waking-life self-awareness in a dream (aka: lucidity) does not always include the presence of your waking-life access to memory. You might be lucid, but you still cannot access memory to question the reality of those two windows. In other words, you might be lucid, but you cannot remember that your room is supposed to have one window.
This lack of access to memory is pretty common, I think, and can be overcome, as Alex said, with experience.
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