I have had Lucid Dreams a few times over the years but was never intentional, and shortly after realizing I'm dreaming I would wake.

A couple weeks ago I heard someone talking about lucid dreaming and it piqued my interest again. That night I had a lucid dream. It seemed to last quite a while. Since then, I have made it a conscious or what I really think for myself is a sub-conscious effort to attain LD's.
I don't use any specific technique, I don't do reality checks, I don't keep a dream journal, I don't really think about it during the day or when I'm trying to sleep. A quick note in regards to dream recall. In the past I would sometimes remember that I had a dream and then try to remember what happened. Now, I don't need to do that. I think I'm conscious enough during my dreams that they're kind of like tv shows. If after I'm awake I want to think about a dream I had I will recall a few more details about what happened, but nothing is ever blurry.

I really believe that just reading about it and putting it in the back of my head has been the key. When I'm dreaming it seems my sub-conscious becomes the foremost thing going for me. I'll usually see something strange happen in my dream and just say to myself "you're dreaming."
I probably have a lucid dream a few nights a week, and usually more than 1 a night.

Here's the thing. My LD's usually aren't very long. A lot of times I will realize I'm dreaming then I spend a few seconds trying to maintain the thought that I'm dreaming and I usually forget, and that's that.
Other times, I will realize I'm dreaming and then attempt to float or fly and I am able to, but it's not really that exciting. I seem to be able to impose my will upon whatever aspect of my dream that I want to, but it's not really that fun or exciting.
I have had a few LD's that seemed to last 10-15 minutes but they are hit and miss on the fun factor. I had one LD where I dreamt that I was a magician and could walk though glass and it freaked everybody out. I also do some tests in my LD's of what I have read on forums about lucid dreaming. People have said that time on clocks change and I thought to myself, I'll see if they're right. So while I was aware I was dreaming, I looked at my watch, (that I materialized on my wrist because I wasn't wearing one before) looked away, then looked back at my watch and the time was completely different. I thought it was hilarious. I've also looked in a mirror and saw that I had no head. Messed around with looking at my hands and spinning.

For me, during a lucid dream, things don't seem that exciting and fun. Normal dreams where things happen are much more crazy and evoke such stronger emotions that lucid dreaming seems to be a slight disappointment. For example, last night I dreamt that I was hanging out with a friend of mine and we met two girls. One had a boyfriend and the other was single. My friend said he was gonna try and hook up with the girl with a boyfriend, so me and the single girl started talking and hanging out. Just the fact that my friend wanted the girl with the boyfriend and I was free to hang out with the other girl was so much more fun than the lucid dream I had later on during the night.

It's a lot to read, but here is my real question I suppose.
Does realizing you are dreaming cut back from how intense the emotions are?
Perhaps I need more training on how to attain more from lucid dreaming. I will say this though, it's an extremely interesting subject and I do like the semi experiments I'm doing in my dreams.

Thanks for reading, if you got this far!