I've been lucid dreaming for over a year now, and I've never had an experience this intense before. This lucid dream lasted for at least 30minutes, and it was my first REM cycle. It started out only sort of lucid, like there was an awareness of it being a dream, but I still acted and thought in very non rational ways. It started out as a nightmare. I remember wanting to just leave the dream and wake up, but I couldn't. I panicked for a bit, tried squirming as much as I could to wake up, and within a few seconds just surrendered and continued on with the dream. Once full lucidity kicked in, I sort of just forgot about the nightmare(lol) and was just awestruck at how freaking real everything was. And I remember it lasting for a while. It was almost like a spiritual experience. I cant even describe it, actually, I dont remember most of it... But I do remember being in the dream, and being dumbfounded by the whole thing. As soon as I could feel my real body, i knew I was awake, and this epic, spiritual dream I just had began to fade from my memory. I think the clarity of everything was what really shocked me. I felt much more in control too. I've been lucid dreaming for over a year now, and recently Ive been having 2-3 LDs a week, nothing this awesome(that I can remember) has happened before. I woke up 1hr and 40mins~ after I laid down to fall asleep, and when I woke up I just felt god shocked. Sort of like the feeling when you come down for LSD or mushrooms lol.

Tibetan Dream Yogis differentiate between 3 different types of dreams,
1. Samsaric Dreams ( can be lucid or nonlucid )
2. Dreams of Clarity (can be lucid or nonlucid )
3. Clear Light Dreams (lucid )

I think I Just experienced a dream of clarity. Here is a little explanation of dreams of clarity from a book titled "The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep" by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche:
"DREAMS OF CLARITY
As progress is made in dream practice, dreams become clearer and
more detailed, and a larger part of each dream is remembered. This is
a result of bringing greater awareness into the dream state. Beyond
this increased awareness in ordinary dreams is a second kind of dream
called the dream of clarity, which arises when the mind and the prana
are balanced and the dreamer has developed the capacity to remain in
non-personal presence. Unlike the samsaric dream, in which the mind
is swept here and there by karmic prana, in the dream of clarity the
dreamer is stable. Though images and information arise, they are based
less on personal karmic traces and instead present knowledge available
directly from consciousness below the level of the conventional
self. in the dream of clarity it is as if something is given to or found by the dreamer, as opposed to the samsaric dream in which meaning is projected from the dreamer onto
the purity of fundamental experience."

All I know is I want more of these kind of dreams...better yet, id like to remember them better T_T