Hey Danielle,

What you have described sounds a lot like what I sometimes experience on a bad night. Usually it's when I have something particularly important to do the next morning or when I'm worried about something that my brain goes into overdrive the night before and I find myself uncomfortably in between states of sleep. My mind wanders and seems to play out what could be considered 'dreams' which I can alter and redirect; however, I am not in a complete state of sleep at the time as the thing of 'worry' lingers in the back of my head preventing me from fully relaxing. Getting up in the morning after a night like this is hell, I'm exhausted and feel like I haven't had any sleep at all.

This might not be what you are talking about, but in my case these half dreams cannot be compared to lucid dreaming which usually takes place in the REM state of sleep, a state reached after passing through the other various stages of sleep during the night. After a night of lucid dreaming I often feel extremely relaxed and well slept the next day. Hope this was of some help.