For me, lucid dreaming is very much like being awake. In fact, all my dreams are so convincing (despite how crazy the content might be) that I forget I am dreaming most of the time. When I have the pleasure and honor of experiencing lucidity in a dream I always take note of how awesomely realistic my dream reality can be.
For example, the other day I had a lucid dream that was created by basically questioning the setting I was in. I all of a sudden found myself in a house I didn't remember going to. It was morning and I couldn't recall how I got there. At that point I came to a shocking realization that I was in a dream. I even said it out loud (without mouth movement), I am in a dream. From that point on, I could create my surroundings. In this case I wanted to fly so I created beautiful sky water and landscape all around me, constantly changing.
Having a lucid dream, an advanced one, can feel just like you feel right now (except you can create anything against the laws of physics). The challenge is knowing what to do with it. If you don't know, you might wake yourself up or go to a negative place and forget you are dreaming again within the dream. Sometimes I can wake up and check on my physical body a little bit and then go right back to sleep into a lucid dream. This is like having two consciousnesses at once.
All this being said, I have been practicing dream recall for three years now in a disciplined manner. It has taken me this long to really push the possibilities of the lucid dream, and I am excited to see what comes next. I hope this helps you find lucidity in your dream. It helps to remind yourself of this possibility and use a trigger, like looking at your hands or learning to question your surroundings.
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