I have been lurking around here for a couple weeks and have been interested in lucid dreaming for quite some time.

I often have dreams where something will be happening and I will tell those DCs around me to "relax, I've had this dream before". It happens all the time and I never become lucid from it. Sometimes I will tell people in my dreams that you can't read. I will then demonstrate this, thus proving its a dream. It never clicks tho..

On to my question. Last night while falling asleep i was passively paying attention to the images before my mind. Well before some time i realized that the images were a complete environment. I could explode cars and such. It wasn't real vivid. Kinda like a picture taking at night. Lots of grain in the image. Anyways, after playing around for a short time the images vanished and i awoke completely. What was this? And am I close to attaining lucidity?

Thank you and I look forward to participating in this community.

Jonathan