Hey there...first of all a big warm WELCOME to the forum.

It seems that you are a natual lucid dreamer (like me)...and really, after reading through this site and all you must realize how lucky you are to be a natural at it like you are.

To be lucid in a dream means, by definition, that you are aware that you are in fact dreaming. In those dreams where you say that you know that you are dreaming but are almost sort of following along a movie script or watching something happen I am not sure that your mind is REALLY convinced that you are lucid. Because if it was actually and completely convinced that you were dreaming those dreams would feel more like the other ones you talked about where you felt like you were really there and could sort of control things. Try doing a reality check in these dreams, it should make you more lucid and make your dream more vivid and able to have control.

Some good reality checks you can try in your dreams are to stick your finger through your palm, or hold your nose shut and try to breath in through it, or just simply try to float. The amount of vividness and control in your lucid dreams really depends on your state of consciousness at the time...so doing reality checks even when you KNOW that you ARE lucid make it even MORE vivid and realistic.

In regards to your other dreaming experiences I've had the same...these usually occur during later morning hours or while I am napping during the day. I will be having a lucid dream and am sometimes SO conscious that I can even open by eyes a tiny bit and look around my room, or hear my parents walking around upstairs and still be dreaming. Also, a good way to avoid FAs is to try a reality check whenever you wake up. Therefore if you make a habit of it you are bound to catch yourself in an FA eventually and from there you can either choose to wake up (or sometimes have another FA so watch out) or enter a lucid dream.

Feel free to PM me or any of the other Dream Guides here if you have any more questions!!!

-nina