I am very often aware that I'm dreaming in my dreams. However, when I've been aware to the point where I have control, the most common occurrence is:

- I can't come up with the "scenery" fast enough to continue the dream. Since I become consciously aware that I'm in control, I realize the dream is in my hands and I have to come up with everything. I then get overwhelmed because I can't come up with every object in the scene fast enough. This happens most often with flying dreams; once I get to a certain spot, I don't know what it looks like past that area.

- I will ask a question that I want to ask someone, but get scared when they start to answer, and as soon as I get scared, I wake up.

There are others but those are the two I think of. Or, this is random and silly but one of the only "lighthearted" ones I've had: I walked into a club/bar deciding I'd go up to, and just start making out with, any guy of my choice (no offense to guys, in the dream he was into it so this wasn't against his will or anything, it was like he already knew me and we had a romance) since I'm dreaming. But, even though I was lucid (?) and theoretically I could create or choose my dream guy, the only guy I was able to choose for some reason was Borat. Not kidding.

Am I not really becoming lucid? I've made the conscious decision to fly, to face fears, to have romantic moments, to ask people questions, etc. and I've also had ones where I know I'm dreaming, but I often have nightmares which must mean I'm not lucid in those because I don't have control, and even in these control ones, it's either too much control and I can't come up with everything in the dream fast enough since it's all in my control, or it's not enough control and I lose it by the end of it?