Originally posted by WindWalker
Now I dont know what you call this, but to me I feel this is lucid dreaming, though I dont know, because im new But whenever I sleep, I am able to create how I want my dream to play out and let it take its course with my mind knowing what it wants in reality, though sometimes I come upon weird and crazy obstacles that are just unpreventable and the dream becomes a nightmare or warning of some sort.
Well, I know dream control is one of the things people can learn to do through lucid dreaming, but it might also happen in non-lucids, I'm not exactly sure.

However, lucid dreaming itself has more to do with consciousness in a dream - not just the kind of conscious meaning "awake" - but more like "awareness". I've only had a handfull of lucid dreams, but they are enough for me to tell you that they have a whole different feel to them. It not only involves control.

Try this next time: get yourself to say "I am in a dream now". See if anything changes - feeling, perception, etc. Only then you'll truly know you're lucid dreaming.