Are you able to continue your dream after waking up (and going back to sleep)?

[TraumGreifer]

Hi, I'm new here and until today, I didn't even know I was a "natural" lucid dreamer. For a while, I have been wondering about my vivid dreams that seem very "real". I tell my husband about them and how I seem to guide them into a certain direction. Most of the time I wake up during a dream but I am able to go back to sleep and continue the dream. It usually goes into my desired direction. I thought everybody was able to do that but when I ask other people, they seem surprised and have not been able to do the same. Until this morning, I had never heard of the term "Lucid Dreamer" and what it means. The only reason, I was doing some research on a particularly real and vivid dream I had last night (and stumbling upon this site), was that I couldn't discuss it with my husband...In the dream, I had a sexual affair with a doctor whom we both know. I was quite shocked about the dream because I have not actually thought about this man in a sexual way. He did send me a few (innocent) flirtatious emails before but nothing "alarming". Now I'm shocked that I was able to guide the dream into a certain direction after waking up and realizing I had been dreaming about this man...the affair we had in part 1 of my dream, turned into a really hot affair which ended in pregnancy and the man leaving me to go back to his wife (in part 2). Of course I couldn't talk to my husband about it but he knew that I was disturbed upon waking... Have you been able to continue dreams after waking up and going back to sleep?