Welcome to Dreamviews.

What a nice introductory post I'm not much of a music buff, but I do love foreign languages. And smell of honeysuckle

OK, so, for a dream to be lucid, the dreamer has to realize, that he is dreaming. You don't always have control in lucid dream and you can have different level of awareness.

In a regular dream, I would say, most of the time you have no control, but you can have some, and you can be thinking rationally, to a certain degree.

From your description, it sounds like in those dreams, where you are self-aware, when you tell yourself "what a strange dream" or something to the effect of you recognizing you are dreaming, you are lucid. Did you ever have a "WOW, I'm dreaming" moment that comes with great joy? Most of the dreamers wake up at this moment, just from sheer excitement of realization. This excitement diminishes with experience, at least it does for me. But the moment of becoming lucid is unmistakable.

If youl'd like to get some imput about meaning of your dreams, you can post them in Dream Interpretation subforum. But I guess, this would only make sence, if the dream is non-lucid.

So look around and have fun. Happy dreams