Do you feel that? This is what it feels like to be lucid. This is the feeling you want to recreate in a dream. Taking over manual control of an automated process.
Remember this realization and anchor your reality checks to it… lucid dreamers call this feeling ‘lucidity’, those who meditate call this feeling ‘mindfulness’, and some mod edit call it ‘enlightenment.’
You’ll also notice, by now, that the feeling is probably gone. That’s why it is so hard… in my experience, to lucid dream. It is impossible to maintain that state… but with practice, you can prolong it.
Anyway… I hope this helps you in the quest for lucidity… because real talk you were just there. That being said, I know it has been 14 years since I was last active here but I wanted to give the best advice I could before going dark again. I’ll periodically check back to this topic to answer any questions and respond to any criticisms as it would be rude to just up and leave again.
Good luck.
EDIT: I did not write ‘some’ the word I used has a negative connotation and the edit of the post changes the message I am trying to convey. Another tip I have is to beware of people who try to project their dreams by editing yours for not falling in line with the world they want to live in.