Just recently, I eased up a bit on my personal lucid dream quest only to suddenly start having them. The catch is in each dream I know I'm dreaming and I'm testing things out to see what I can do but it feels like I'm not fully lucid.

This last week I've been able to change scenery, have super strength and flight but it's like my mind is hazy or isn't in gear somehow. I know I'm dreaming but knowing is part of the dream.

It also occurs to me that many of us have problems with lucid dreaming because we try too hard. I naturally wake up early in the morning but many times I'll check email and just decide to sleep another 2 hours or so.

It was in the cases where I wasn't actually trying for lucidity and woke up/got a drink/checked email/whatever and went back to sleep where it all worked.

What's strange is the first lucid came as soon as my head hit the pillow. I closed my eyes and saw my feet as I was standing on grass somewhere and off I went.