I always wanted to ask this question: Is what I’m doing lucid dreaming or not?
I have multiple dreams that I can Hear, smell, taste, even see vivid colors in them. They’re so vivid I feel everything like it’s real, My thoughts in each one is ‘I like this one, let’s go with the flow’ I usually want to know how the dream turns out. If I don’t like it I just wake up and fall asleep again unless my body clock says it had enough and just stay awake instead.
If you are self aware and know you are dreaming, and it sounds like you are when you say "let’s go with this one’, then yes that’s lucidity.
The next step is to insert control, and choose to go somewhere or visit someone.
How do I do that? I would love to learn how and safe ways as well.
You provide yourself with a command and do it. Energy follows mind - put your mind to where you want to be and you teleport there.
Look up the work of Robert Munroe who wrote books on how to do this, also Michael Raduga who calls it being in “The Phase”.