Quote Originally Posted by RobotGymnast View Post
My question is more: the accounts I've heard of lucidity made it sound like a new experience, like it had clarity, a wave of omnipotent happiness, and more logical thought, even on their first one. My experience is not at all like that. Why is my experience so different? (if I was even lucid..) Has anybody else had this? That a lucid dream is still very murky, and your brain still feels asleep? Does anybody know why this is?

And before somebody says I've asked this before, I haven't. I've asked some similar questions, like why I didn't become lucid, and was told that I was lucid in this dream... didn't feel very conscious.
Interesting topic! I'd say you're experiencing a low level lucid or at least a non lucid dream with a lucid content if you see what I mean?
You can treat your subconcious mind as a mirror for your waking conscious mind if you like, and even though you may have said " I am dreaming" within the dream, it doesn't really amount to much unless subsequent events or RC's actually prove to your conscious mind that you are in fact dreaming right there and then.
I've had the same thing where I said "I must be dreaming!" ( after a man standing in front of me disappeared before my eyes) but that was my SC saying that at the time and not me actually realizing the fact. It was only after a table flew towards me from the now-invisible man that I truly realised I was dreaming and my conscious mind kicked in and I confirmed it with a conscious RC.

That's what most people are after I believe when they ask what a lucid dream actually feels like, knowing that they are now IN the dream and not OF the dream.