Im soooo close...

I have known how to do the technique where you relax every muscle one by one for a long time before i've known about lucid dreaming. When i read about WILD (or MILD, i cant remember) it was describing what i use to get myself to slepp every night. Because i've been doing it for years, i cant get in to it in a matter of minutes, up to the stage where I can feel the dreams, kind of tricking me. When i did this before i would always get to this point then let one of the dreams just take me, and I would awaken with a full rest and memory of a cool dream. So now when i try to lucid dream its hard to convince myself so be alert for the dreams. Sometimes im kind of floating in blackness, then i feel a bit startled as i remember doing something dreamlike four seconds ago. Last night this happened four times (once i remeber yelling for someone named Alps in a western village, then thinking, whos Alps) and i need some advice, is the state when i relised what was going on being lucid, if so how can i avoid waking up (no time for dream spinning). The easist way to describe it is that there is a kind of lag between the relisation waking me up, then remembering what happened, about 4 seconds. Thanks in advanced.

you have to stabalize yourself. And let that "lag time" carry out somemore. You have to also incubate the intention of noticing a dream sign, then Reality check. You are ahead of the game. That coud be good or bad. It seems all you have to do is relax the whole time. Its not a lucid dream until you realise your dreaming, and you cant do that if you are waking up just as the dream is starting.