Do you have experience with lucid dreaming?

I have had different experiences with it. Sometimes I will tell a person in the dream that we are in a dream and they never believe me. I remember one time I knew I was dreaming and I got bored with it since I knew I was dreaming I was just waiting for it to be over. And whenever I have these dreams where I'm aware I'm dreaming, I just can't get over how much it is so much like real life, you can touch things and they feel solid you look at things and you're surroundings and it just seems so real

I am not sure what a "lucid" dream is.

Yes, my dreams are lucid in the true sense: they are clear images; and sometimes refer vaguely to real people and rather surreal versions of real places.

Often the location is totally invented and in considerable detail but most of the people are poorly-defined and any story is almost non-existent.

Sometimes I recall them, but forget most dreams them almost immediately on waking as is normal.

"Interpretations"? "Meanings"? No - dreams have no "meanings" beyond fleeting references to real places or people.

"Controlling" dreams? No - we cannot do that.

"Journals" (The trendy name for a diary, I think.) No point. It might be amusing to keep a dream diary, but you will only record the few dreams you remember, and it will not tell you anything useful.

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So just what are dreams? They are normal, fleeting, random events believed to be by-products of the brain's own house-keeping, particularly memory-refreshing, while we are asleep. We need sleep, as almost all animals do, to give the body time to maintain and repair itself. That includes the brain. The brain is actually quite busy all the time, and puts us asleep so it can get on with its vital work undisturbed.

Sometimes we seem to be dreaming while awake, but we are not fully awake, and the dream fades as we waken further.

I had a phase a long time ago where I kept a dream journal and made some attempts at lucid dreaming. Ultimately, I was unsuccessful. The biggest obstacle was my dream recall. Memory of dreams leaves me very quickly after waking up, to the point that I wasn't consistently able to write down any of what had happened. (But interestingly, when I'm starting to get sleepy, imagery from previous nights' dreams sometimes starts passing through my mind's eye.)

On the rare occasion that I had an in dream realization about being asleep, it still seemed one "level" removed from a lucid dream. I never seemed to have true conscious awareness that I was within a dream. Rather, I think I had the waking thought "Okay, I'm going to try to induce a lucid dream", and that thought then manifested within my dreamscape. Kind of a fake awareness, if that makes any sense. I'd have the apparent realization that I was dreaming, but then the dream would proceed as if I didn't actually know that.

I want to but I haven't yet, I've tried a couple of times but never seriously. I had once actually, few years back. I woke up and went to the kitchen then suddenly realised I'm hovering a meter high from the washing machine and I'm like "holy shit" then I remember the instructions so I looked at my hands. Then I thought let's look at the mirror but immediately I thought, "bad idea" and.. woke up..:)
Colours weren't vivid though but night like, darkness with haze and the colours one sees when in the dark with lights off..
I want to practice.

I think i might lucid dream, but im not sure.

I have some amazong dreams where the reality of it is AMAZING, yet im aware its a dream.
Yet if someone walked into my bedroom - im aware of them too.

They are always the last dreams of the night, just before i wake for yhe day. And highly recallable in detail l, (if i choose to write them down).

Bit i dont have many of them that are really extensive, mostly short ones .
A few have been incredibly intricate amd surreal.