Hi Emh360. Lucid dreaming is one of those areas where the eventor phenomenon is reported by many, many people, but the actual source data can'tever escape the realm of personal experience - so there will be different ideas and yess and nos reported for various things.
First of all, the experience you recount of seeing your bedroom very clearly is, in my experience, very closely connected with lucid dreaming. I know because it was one of the techniques I used to start lucid dreaming in the first place. I used let my eyes 'look' in to my eyelids and form whatever visual shape or image they wanted, then I learned to 'hold' that image as I slipped in to that familiar threshold area between sleep and waking.
I've heard numerous people say things like it's not possible to remember or be aware of the moment you fall asleep. Actually, it's completely possible and I've done it many times using the above method. The first time I did it it simply felt like somersaulting backwards in to my mind, and remains one of my best lucid dreaming experiences, even though it was one of the simplest.
However, as has been mentioned, the 'type' of sleep you are having is very important. For example, as has probably been mentioned here many times, a siesta is by far the best time to lucid dream. So if you go to bed in that part of the sleep cycle that gives you that type of sleep, then you can do it at night - but for me, and I think for many, that early point of bed time isn't the best or easiest time to lucid dream. So, advice would be, try to take a siesta - and it also seems to help, in my experience, if you siesta in a place other than your bed, such as a chair. You can try the 'holding image' method - it has numerous different versions, and varying degrees of lucidity. Never think there's only one or two types of dreaming state - in my experience, there's a continuum of different states, with different levels of awareness.
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