[The David]

Okay...my main obstacle, when it comes to lucid dreaming, is not so much reality checks, or dream recall, or anything else of the sort. I frequently become aware that I am dreaming. However, after attaining lucidity, the dream fades. All the imagery is gone, there are no sounds, and I can feel myself lying in bed.

Until recently, I thought this just meant that I was awake from the dream, perhaps in some weird hypnopompic state.

Just the other day, I dreamed that I was standing in front of these strange children. I had this machine that emitted an oily spray from one opening, and a flame from another opening. I was spraying the children and then torching them (this was BEFORE attaining lucidity, mind you), and I ran out of oil (don't you hate that?). I instantly became lucid, then manifested a bottle of canola oil behind me, because it's easier to manifest things outside of your view. I took the bottle, then the imagery faded. I felt myself in bed. It was the same feeling I mentioned in the first paragraph-I felt myself in bed, and did not see anything-but this time, I still sensed that there were children in front of me, and I felt, very vividly, the bottle of oil in my hand. In some sense, I was still dreaming.

Okay, so that probably sounds weird, and it's a long paragraph, but has anyone else experienced that after attaining lucidity? Was I really awake, or did I just need to remind myself that I was dreaming and enter the dream again? Or does this make absolutely no sense to anyone?