Thread: So was I Lucid Dreaming or not?

Hi guys, I'm a little new here so I guess I'll use this as my introduction thread too, I've been browsing the forums and tutorials and thought I would sign up. Its really fun and entertaining reading other peoples dreams and theory's .

Long story short, I had a few lucid dreams when I was a kid before I knew what it was and a couple of months ago a friend of mine told me what I had experienced so I researched it months ago. Since then about 3-4 times I though of the word 'Lucidity' and then woke up. Last week I decided to do more research and I found this website and it inspired me to keep a dream journal.

So just a little bit ago I think I had my first, real and exiting lucid dream (I think) that didn't end as soon as I realized it. However, I don't know if I was actually lucid or if that was the 'dream plot', like the dream was still in control. It seemed that some things like the outer exterior of my house seemed a little strange and even myself seemed a little strange too. My question was could I have been actually dreaming or could it just be a normal dream that was about Lucid dreaming because of all the intense research and reading I've been doing on it?

Heres the Dream:
So I was waking up from a dream and I tried to DEILD (So I thought) and I could imagine my self feeling my bed with my hand and then i acually felt it in my mind like the dream was forming! Any ways I couldn't feel the bed anymore so i tried to do a RC and it worked! I pinched my nose and I could breath! So (without stabilizing the dream first, which leads me back to my question of if i was dreaming or not) I immediately threw my covers off and tried to fly and bust threw the roof of my house but instead of busting through I just hovered there at my roof. So instead I just walked out of my room. I remember everything being very vivid in my house and even when i stepped outside. I looked at the sky and there was one smallish cloud raining on me so I decided to shout "INCREASE CLARITY" to see what that would do. It stopped raining but the cloud stayed there.

I remember going to my house and looking at the detail in it so I walked around the house thinking how cool this is, then I did a few practice jumps to test how it felt and then I leaped on my house. After that I jumped to the road and tried to summon a dragon but it didn't work. So instead I asked the dream very nicely if I could have a dragon, because I read somewhere that its better letting the dream make the stuff up then trying to summon if your new to lucid dreaming. I seen something at the end of my road but now it was getting dark and I was a little afraid of going down there and then I woke up.

So I knew I was dreaming so I believe I was lucid but was I actually in control or was it just a 'dream plot' controlling me? Any help will be much appreciated.

Sorry for the wall of text above.