Starting to Lucid

>I'm standing in blackness, like what you see when you close your eyes, there is no ground or anything to see.
>only just having read up on lucid dreaming for the first time yesterday i pinch my nose, and i can breathe through it
>i can feel the dream trying to get away and my body wanting to wake up, so i go to eat the ground, but as i kneel down i wake up.