and the manifested faces aren’t even as detailed as the natural dream.

Honestly I initially read that as “manifested feces” and my first thought was “well, I won’t kinkshame”

I think it’s worth pointing out that there are different levels of lucidity. I have myself experienced dreams where I have been “aware” of the fact that I am dreaming, and yet I have behaved irrationally in ways that I wouldn’t normally. In one dream I can recall, when I became “aware” of my dream, I jumped off the roof of a building thinking that I could make myself fly and shift myself into my conworld — but save for a few brief seconds when I managed to shift myself to an honestly breathtaking skydiving view of my conworld before being shifted back… Yeah, I just ended up splattering on the ground within a few seconds.

The way I make sense of this is that it isn’t lucid dreaming per se, but rather it’s a dream about having a lucid dream. So you’re no more in control than you are in a non-lucid dream. I’ve never been good at lucid dreaming so I don’t know what advice I’d give for that problem, though. I’ve heard that spinning around can be a good way to keep oneself from waking up; I’ve also heard that it’s risky business to attempt to alter a dream too much, too. I also think that dreams about sex often correlate to masturbating or having sex in the waking world either very frequently or very rarely.

Ultimately when I have dreams about sex I just don’t really worry about it. At most when I wake up I’ll just sort of groan and say “chuis mal baisée, putaaain”. I guess I’m just sort of resigned to not controlling my dreams, so I prefer to write them down and continue them after I’ve woken up.