I'll cut to the lucid part... I was made to wait in a small room that had a floor fan that was running, and it wasn't plugged in. I stared at it, and made it stop with my mind. I knew I was dreaming...

The joy of this realization overpowered me a bit (which is strange, cause it's the 5th time since I restarted in 2011 trying to have lucid dreams), and I jumped into a little dance in this small room, while a dream rap song began playing. It was something silly and humorous out of a movie (I had just seen parts of Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, and Johnny Depp's senseless dance at the end must've mated with Sandra Bullock's stupid dance in The Proposal), but mostly, I was just happy, so I danced.

I find this particularly odd now, because usually when I become lucid, I get an urgent sense of purpose. The first good lucid dream I had in January, after I knew I was dreaming, I literally said, "Okay, down to business..." and flew.

This time, I danced around. HOWEVER; I did do some tricks I've read about here, so I'm inclined to say I was genuinely lucid.

Silly me, I jumped in front of a mirror, thinking, "That's something I've never done in a dream before!", but that's a Reality Check, not a grounding technique. It was kind of scary, but my happiness (and the intelligence to know if I allowed it, fear would overtake the dream) kept me in the moment. What I saw looking back was me, but like something out of Jacob's Ladder or The Ring, all schizophrenic, fast-forward and jumping in position.

I danced over to a refrigerator in the room, remembering someone told me to eat something to better ground myself within the dream, looked in the freezer, and logic dictated all the items in there were frozen. Kind of annoyed me, but I kept my cool (I was like, really? this is my DREAM, and the freezer has to really be a freezer?), opened to bottom of the fridge, pulled out a packet of strawberries in a plastic wrap (why was I making things MORE difficult??) and ripped it open, grabbed one out, and ate it.

I tried to imagine the taste, I got the texture about right, but it wasn't too flavorful. At that, I noticed something on the opposite side of the room and forget what it was, and my wife rolled around in the bed and woke me up!

Is it possible to "pretend" you're lucid in a dream, doing the things you'd do, but you're not REALLY in control? Wouldn't that scenario produce a lucid dream, even if at first it was just you *dremaing* you're lucid?