Basically I have a question about lucid dreams. How real are they when you are experiencing them. People say more real than waking life but that is just impossible to feel when you haven't had one yet but when you are actually in one are you completely aware as you are in waking life and do you see them as you as waking life?

By aware I mean can you control your actions because in natural dreams I often wake up to say to myself why did I do this? As I wasn't in full control.