Last night I had a dream that my mom died (feels yucky to even type that sentence). Anyway, she was laying on the couch, dead, and I was crying and holding her and then I realized that if I was sleeping she would be able to come to life in my dream (I'm pretty sure it was related to a thread I read here yesterday about a place where dreamers and dead people meet or something).

Anyway, while I was holding her I closed my eyes and made myself fall asleep right away. When I opened my eyes in the dream, she was alive and awake and we hugged and I was so happy. And the whole time I was telling myself, "you know you're dreaming, you're lucid dreaming, this isn't real, don't be dissapointed when you wake up." But I had control in that dream and I was making her alive and making her talk to me but I knew I was just dreaming.

Anyway, then I woke up in the dream and she was still dead in my arms. I don't really know what happened after that.

Is that sort of a lucid dream? It was a dream within a dream and I did exert some control in the second dream, I just didn't realize it was a dream within a dream.

I can't make up my mind. What do you think?