Define Lucid Dreaming

This might be hard to explain, but its been bugging me for the past couple of days and I've been, actually, losing sleep over it.

I have dreams while I'm in a state of semi-conciousness. Well, I'm not sure if this constitutes at Lucid dreaming, since I understand that to be conscious IN your dreams, and not conscious OUTSIDE of your dreams.

I've had lucid dreams before, being aware of dreaming and changing the dream. But these dreams I have no control over. These instances usually occur in the semi-consciousness state that happens right as you wake up, but are too tired still to stay up. So that I am consciously aware of my surroundings of my room (not a false awakening) but there is a dream going on in my room.

Exmaple, this morning I was trying to sleep, but people were sitting at the end of my bed talking. It would move from me, seeing my room empty, to seeing people sitting on my bed. I specifically remember looking at my alarm clock, noting the time as 9:47. Realizing that my alarm was going to go off in 3 minutes, I actually physically brought my entire body out of sleep and, looking at my clock, it was still 9:47. (is that example makes any sense)

So, my question is, can this be considered a form of lucid dreaming. If so, how do you stop it? Because this dream has been haunting me for almost every night for the past week, always a different senerio though and its not the most restful kind of sleep either.

i think i kind of understand what you're saying.. this happens to me sometimes when people walk into my room and it wakes me up, but i'm still dreaming. It's like you get a birds eye view of your room and see whats going on and you're awake but your body is still sleeping. I don't know what it is, after explaining what happens to me just now, it kind of sounds like an OBE (out of body experience) but i'm not too educated on the stuff.

Well, do you really believe it's your room? Or do you know it's a false awakening? Or are you saying that your eyes are open in reality, but the dream images superimpose your vision? If it's the latter, why not close your eyes and let the dream continue? There are many applications for re-entering a dream in this manner.

I wouldn't say this could be called lucid dreaming. The definition is a dream in which you know you are dreaming. The thing you're talking about happens to me a lot. I guess you were just waking up and falling back into the dream.

If the conversations persist, perhaps you could step in.

is it often that poeple come into your room?maybe your body clock knows that its waking up time...

maybe in your dream you think that there is someone there, you think that you wake up and look at your clock... but actually its just your body clock interacting with your dreaming? making you think that you woke up, and someone came in

even if someone did come into the room, maybe what they did and what they said was warped by your dreaming?

basicaly what im saying is = your body is used to looking at your clock and used to people coming in. so you dream about it!?!?!?!?