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That still sounds like the same thing. Whenever I become aware that I am dreaming, I always become able to control my dreams. Don't the two things go hand in hand?
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      Not precisely. When you are lucid, your conciousness is awake while your body is still asleep. A good example would be one of the times it happened to me. I thought I was awake, yet everything was black. I tried opening my mouth, and nothing happened. So basically it was as if I was trapped inside my body, which was still sleeping. I said, "Wake up!" and tried shaking around (which I really didn't) and I slowly woke up at that time. Lucid dreams also tend to put you in a third-person position, in which you are like a player controlling everything going on, yet are not an actual person in the dream. Controlled dreams, on the other hand, are when you are in a first-person role while acting out the dream. So a controlled dream are as if one was "living" the dream. I myself, have experienced dreams
SO real, that even to this day I cannot look back upon them and differentiate between it and real life. I can't even say for certain that it WAS a dream.
      Jacob states it well as a "different astral plane." I won't get into any great depth of detail, but earlier humans made no distinction between the real and dream world. To them, they were the same. Seemingly simply because they did not have the "split" conciousness that the modern human has; no "Unconcious" and "concious" mind; their minds were one. Modern human has this "split" in their conciousness, and it does cause various problems. One of which is not taking dreams
seriously. Though there are even more serious repercussions.