Hello, I'm new here, didn't know there was a dedicated subreddit to lucid dreaming. So even though I'm moderately familiar with lucid dreming, I don't know most abbreviations used here.
So, I started my journey 10 years ago by some pdf guide, cannot remember its name right now. It worked surpsisingly quickly and I learned to recreate it easily. I wake up at around 6-7 AM, and then while trying falling asleep again, I use the method where you try to imagine yourself rotating while your eyes moving around behind the eyelids, closed.
I stand over my bed, and it is like an exact copy of my home. It is extremely detailed and vivid, except that I walk at slow motion. Sometimes it is so realistic that I feel the need to double check if I'm really dreaming, by holding a lighter or match flame to my hand. It's like an exact copy of home, except I'm aware that I'm dreaming.
So can you really call my experience lucid dreaming? I cannot change my environment and continue to freely lucid dream. All my "experiences" happened at home. Of course with enough willpower and imagination I can summon people into home. But is it really a lucid dream if you cannot change the setting? Is there a way to change this phenomenon? I'm tired of only going around the house like a ghost lol. It is still interesting though, hence I didn't stop doing it.