Usually I'm able to dream very consistently with practice of lucid dream, so I'd say option 2.
Yesterday night, for example, I had a very surreal lucid dream. It was kinda dreamlike actually, because deep down inside I realised that I was in reality still napping in my room even while I was sailing through the universe at a couple billion km a second. While I realize it had taken much conditioning to get to this point, I completely think that it was worth it. When I first tried lucid dreaming I tried tons of free Internet "books" I found while skimming online blogs. However, after experimenting with these approaches for around four weeks I still had no dominance over my nightmares. I think the element that they were missing was the compelling audio tracks that I got when I bought a professional lucid dreaming course with markedly good feedback, but I would never violate the rules by trying to advertise this course on SFN. Now I can pretty much do any thing I like (though often I stick sailing all over the world).