I was just made aware of lucid dreaming yesterday=noob, and ive been thinking of past dreams. In some dreams i kind of know that im dreaming but it always seems like i cant free roam.

For example im being chased by a crowd of people and im pretty frightened, in most cases i will tell my self in my dream to wake up knowing that i am in a dream. Other times i will tell myself to wake up but i cant wake up so i continue with the dream until i try later when it will eventually work

Also its only at the point of where i want to get out of the dream is when i become aware that i am indeed dreaming and can wake myself up. And the dreams are somewhat vivid but almost seen as in third person. kind of hard to explain

It seems to be lucid but in the dreams i wasnt able to do what i wanted and go where i wanted, i kind of just had to go with the flow of the dream.

Could this be because i wasnt aware that i could do that stuff or is it just a non-lucid dream?

Hope this makes sense