What does it mean to lucid dream?

I hope this is in the correct forum. Since it has to involve the nature of dreams.
Anyway I was thinking why do I lucid dream all the time. One night I can have several at a time. That's each time I sleep, get up and repeat. So I was wondering why do I lucid dream all the time? I'm not the smartest person in the world. I do have good memory though. lol. Has their ever been an explanation in why I and maybe others lucid dream?

For anyone wanting to know how to lucid dream; hears a great article to check out!
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Have you seen "Waking life" link It's a really great movie about dreaming I tried really hard to lucid dream after I watched it but have only done it on very rare random occasions

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I do it all the time and a lot of times it hurts! Serious!
Sometimes I have dreams where I'm in pain and then I wake up.
The dream world hates me a lot of the times. It knows how to pull my strings.

To answer the question it probably means you are generally aware of your surroundings and things in life. It means you can spot the games (and irrationalities/flawed perceptions) your mind is making sometimes. Probably means you have a powerful imagination. To lucid dream is just sort of to realize what's going on truly, when you dream. To live lucidly is to live in awareness, clarity, and energy - (which actually seems to annoy people, somehow). So lucid dreaming has it's counterpart in waking life. It just means to be aware of the bigger picture in your personal reality and the workings of it, your first person perspective. It also probably means you are about to wake up

I'm surprised your dreamworld "doesn't like you." My dreamworld is a crazy contrast to real life. People in real life generally hate me lol, in the dreamworld they are often nice, easily persuaded, and sometimes like clinging to my leg. I've always been amazed at this contradiction, because if the dreamworld is just your mind drawing pictures of your real life - I wouldn't be having any fun in my dreams most of the time. I do know that just because you are lucid does not mean it WILL be a good dream, I've had some of those and know what you mean, but I'm curious to find out more about your dreamworld.