Thread: Questions

Okay So I am very new to this Idea of Lucid dreaming, just not new to the process.. If that makes sense at all.
I don't really understand any of the terms of it all. I suppose as I do more research I will understand it better.
I suppose the thing I am more interested in is that I have been able to lucid dream since I was a child. I used to have aweful nightmares and started to be able to change those nightmare into something better. Most of my nightmares were about my Biological father who was extremely abusive to my mother. At the time my favorite cartoon was the Little Mermaid so when I was dreaming about my Dad beating my mom I started dreaming about Ariel saving my brother my mom and I from my Dad. I knew I was dreaming I just couldn't get myself to wake up. I think I was about 4 years old when I had my first one.
Ever since then I have been able to dream about anything from flying to being in the circus. As a child I loved to dream that I could fly so I would think about it before I went to bed. Obviously I didn't know how to do reality checks and a few times scared myself quite a bit thinking I would never wake up. As I got older I would see certian things in my dreams that made me realize I was dreaming and to wake myself up.
A lot of what I do though is day dreaming i guess you could say about things before I fall asleep, it really depends on where my mind has been that day. And thats what I dream about. If I don't like where the dream is going then I kind of manipulate it to what I want it to be. When I was a teenager most of my lucid dreams revolved around sex. ( I think that a normal teenage thing though! lol) I also am very good at remembering my dreams so a dream that I remember from the night before can go on for days or weeks. Just a story in mind that keeps on going.

So I guess my question really is what kind of dreaming am I doing? Is it really lucid dreaming or something else?