For a long time, I've wondered what is different about my lucid dreams. Different from reality, I should say. When I'm awake, I have a clear mind just as I'm lucid. But how I experience is entirely different.

I came to the conclusion a while back that since my thinking is so much clearer and more straightforward in dreams, and because I also only have sensations that I specifically imagine, those factors and other similar factors combine to form an impression which is not readily apparent but which completely influences my perception of how the dream is.

At least, that's what I rationally concluded. However, I re-examined this (via introspection) in my last and only recent lucid dream, and this is what I recalled. "I remember that I examined how I felt in the dream, and that I could tell it was a dream because while I didn't feel anything off, the dream world had a texture that definitely existed "outside" my mind, and was something I sensed like I would sense something that's real sensory data, and I knew that was foreign to my waking world's feel which was completely internally meaningful if at all."

In other words, I think that my lucid dream had its own class of sensation, so it wasn't just the synthesis of various necessarily tweaked sensations.

Rationally, everyone shouldn't experience lucid dreams the same way, so tell me, what is the difference that people here have noticed? Do you guys have other thoughts about what makes a lucid experience so vitally different from a waking one? Please, I would like to hear what people's impressions are from their own experiences.

Edit: Also, I hope this poll is okay. By the way, I forgot to take out the word "just" in several of those options--when I realized it would be impractical to do something where people were able to pick multiple options, I decided to make it so you chose the one that was most true, but forgot to take out the word "just".