Lucid while "half" dreaming, half-awake?

It's been a week since I started trying to LD again, and I got extremely close last night! But it was weird. :P

I woke up around 3-4am so I was in REM or however you would say it, and I used the restroom and went back to bed. I don't feel comfortable trying to WILD yet, so I just counted in my head until I fell asleep, "1, I am dreaming. 2, I am dreaming. 3, I am dreaming, etc."

Not soon after that, I somehow found myself shooting lightning from my hands into some kind of stone or something. (Weird, I know. :( )

Anyway, I realized I was dreaming right away, and it took me by surprise. I told myself firmly, "I am dreaming," then tried to confirm this by looking at my hand. I felt myself bring it up, but saw no hand. My "vision" got extremely unstable and bluish, then I found the dream world fade out and the real world fade in, and I was staring at my "real" hand, right where it should have been when I was dreaming!

So in other words I didn't feel myself bring up my dream hand when trying to RC, I brought up my real hand! How does that work?? :?

Was I just half asleep or something? So close! :P

..... :uhm:

Maybe the dream was ending and you were lucid.

Well, I checked the time and it was only a couple of minutes after trying to go back to bed. Plus, I woke up with my head up and my hand in front of it. :panic:

And my eyes were already open, it seems. Since the images just faded in and out with each other.

Wait. ...Was I sleeping with my eyes open? :eek:

just like buzz lightyear! its a conspiracy!

but yeah this has happened to me before, just keep tryin

... iunno then :/

Thanks for the replies, dudes. I'm just wondering if I should add this to my lucid count or not. Lol. It does give me an indication that I'm getting closer to being back to where I was about a year ago, though. I'm in better health, so I hope to surpass it very soon.

it sounds like you did a WILD and then woke up from surprise.

I think I had one of those. I remember looking at a plant full of cobwebs, and as I tried to look around it I woke up; but I was still aware I was in my room. Hard to describe, but I wasn't fully in the dream state.