Originally posted by Raven Michaels
Well if I can actually CONTROL it then I know its lucid...

...if I cant then it could just be a dream where I think Im dreaming...

...then again when I can "control" the dream...maybe its just me thinking Im controlling a dream...
it seems like you are making things way too complicated.

if you have a dream where you think you are dreaming....YOU ARE DREAMING...

put it this way.if in a dream you conclude "i am in a dream, and my physcial body is safe in bed" ..you are lucid dreaming. period. even if some zombie comes out of the woodwork and starts pissing in your face and you can't move, but are thinking "this is messed up...why do i have zero control when this is a dream"...you are lucid.

whereas, you could have a dream where a zombie starts pissing in your face, and you freeze his urine telepathically, jab him through the throat with it, and then ride off into the sky on his deep frozen piss stick, and still not be lucid.

although, if the first scenario happens (you are aware your physical body is asleep, and you are dreaming), and THEN you take control, you have lucidity and control

*shrugs* again, i think you are making things too complicated. if you wish to, that's up to you.