<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE("Crystal")</div>
But when I was thinking that to myself, it felt like I knew I was dreaming and it was my conscious self that made the decision, but I wasn&#39;t getting the whole effect of &#39;knowing&#39;, or I wasn&#39;t really grasping that “HEY&#33; I&#39;m dreaming”. It was very weird. Can anyone explain what that is?[/b]
Hey Crystal, and

Well if you think about it, when we are in dreams all things seem possible by nature. Weird things can happen and we simply don&#39;t use any logical reasoning as to whether they are odd or not - that part of our brain seems to simply shut down or "take a break" while we dream.

So, it seemed perfectly normal that you could morph into a dog. Your level of consciousness was likely being raised and had it continued you would have reached full lucidity. Instead you sort of leveled off at some point in between "woooh, this can&#39;t be possible" and "eh, happens all the time". You were also probably so preoccupied in the the dream that you didn&#39;t really spend so much time questioning your new capability enough to break over the line of lucidity.

Keep at it, you&#39;re getting there. The more you learn to recognize what a dream feels like, the easier it will get to become lucid.

PS-- I love your (real) name