Quote Originally Posted by mdspencer68 View Post
Now, here'e the part where I'm a little confused about. At that moment I didn't feel a sudden sense of great awareness, although I felt it spike just a little for a second. I've read how people described their first LD, how they had a sudden rush of excitement. That didn't happen to me, but for some reason I said to myself out loud, "Oh my God, I'm dreaming." I wonder if this was my subconscious f'ing with me.
I think you were lucid. Although I have always had the rush of excitement in my first LDs, maybe that's not the rule. Little later on, I remember not getting excited, but saying something like "finally". But this excitement at least for me, is only for DILDs. I have not felt it in WILDs, since you enter WILD without loss of awareness, so it's not much of a surprise for you to be in a lucid.

Quote Originally Posted by mdspencer68 View Post
All of a sudden I was hit a barrage of what looked like micro dreams. It was as if my subconscious took three to five second samples of a few dreams and played them in rapid sequence.
Not sure what exactly that was, but this sounds like the little dreamlets you get just before you enter LD. I have had some of these and they were in HD, extremely vivid and detailed. When I see these, and they are big enough, so they cover my whole field of vision, I pick one of them and enter it as LD.

So congrats! Happy dreams