Originally posted by jay dawg
once again i had another non LD dream about LDing. i was in a massive school type building and starting flying upwards. it was rather difficult and i was wobbling around. some people looked at me in amazement. i was telling myself \"this is a dream so its easy to fly just do it\"

i swear to god i was not even close to being lucid. this blows. how could that not get me lucid. honestly
Actually, I think that you were definitely having the kind of controlled lucid dream that we are talking about here. By "control", we do not mean that you can easily fly, teleport, and transform things; rather, "control" means that your thoughts arise from a true thought process, rather than your thoughts merely being dream content.

Technically, TigrHawk is right in that any dream in which you know that you are dreaming is considered a lucid dream by most definitions. However, the possibilities are endless only when you not only know that you are dreaming, but also have a proper thought process with true volition.

When I dream I find that my consciousness is usually somewhere in between random thoughts and full-blown consciousness. I think that sometimes when you stop yourself as ZappPSR suggests, it creates a sort of positive feedback in which the more conscious you are, the more able you are to make yourself more aware. This is what creates the big rush of awareness that people sometimes get.