Hello, i've never really given any thought to the possibility of lucidity while dreaming. It doesn't make much sense to me. What is the difference between simply remembering a dream and remembering a dream in which you were "lucid?" I'll admit the main reason LD piqued my interest is for the possibility of having lucid dreaming sex with women who'd normally be way out of my league, among other things.

Anyway, from what i understand, reality checks are necessary to induce lucidity during a dream, right? - something that'll trigger my mind to say "wait a minute, this a dream." Why does that work? My dreams are always so weird and fantastical, that I can't imagine my mind suddenly thinking "this can't be real" because surely it knows "it's not real" in the first place? Also, just how real does a lucid dream feel? Do you remember it afterwards as well as you remember any other memory that really happened?