lucid dreams are only defined by being aware you are dreaming. You can then chose to control or observe. I'm more of an observer, but I am aware and control my own actions, just not the actions of others. I fly all the time. I design things and create things and come up with stories that I then am compelled to write down cause the stuff happening in my head feels like a stephen king movie waiting to happen.
I guess I just find the creativity so much more interesting that I'd rather let things develop than pretend I'm hanging out with a guy I'm into. My dreams are very real and the people in them are always people I know and they maintain the same characters.
One reoccurring one is that I'm in an earthquake that goes on non stop and is so bad that I'm just outside of downtown LA and the buildings sway so heavily and are so elastic that they bang and clash into each other. And the sky is always bright yellow, orange, and pink. But I'm usually in a very normal dream just like enjoying my friends company or having a party and then the earthquake happens, and that's always when I become aware that I'm dreaming.
I'm at a point where sometimes things are so realistic, I have trouble distinguishing what was real and what wasn't. Like deja vu on steroids. This has also left me with a few "out of body" experiences. Like if I'm dreaming and I hear people talking, I'll have a false wake up and walk to wear they are and listen in on their conversation. If it's someone I dont know, then I end up making them into what I think or want them to be. Once it's over I walk back to bed and then tell myself to wake up and it's such a strange feeling cause I always feel like it really happened, but I know it didnt.
Ugh, ok, that is all.