Hi Lubeck
I do know how you feel because I have had these experience all of what you have mentioned at one time or another through out my life.

What has helped me is to always relax and let the dream state take over even though many times I am scared. It is usually when I relax I can make myself wake up. But many times I do fall back into a dream thinking I am awake I can't stand when that happens.

I do have different stages of sleep I will not mention them all.

In one stage I am sort of lucid and it's hard to keep it. I fall in and out of the dreaming state, lucid to dreaming back and forth. In this state I see people I know who are no longer alive and I can't recall every detail.

Another state is my lucid state I am totally lucid, everything is extremely clear and I remember ever single detail in the same memory recall as when I am awake. These are the dreams I am able to draw out in detail. I have tons of floor plans I have drawn to places I have never seen and I know can't exist. I have also drawn faces of people I do not know. One person a man I am frequently trying to save or find when I become aware I am lucid I have him drawn in many different angles. So freaky at how real he seems in the dreams. I see a lot of art and music in my lucid states which fuel my imagination in my waking life. I even have done mathematical problems in my head in a lucid state that have helped me in my Algebra classes and better understand it when I wake up.

There are usually four to five thought processes I go throught when I do dream. I just don't lucid dream. My favorate dreams are when they are good which are fewer than more are the lucid ones.

I wonder what type of people have the most lucid dreams?