non-lucid

I'm with a couple of wo-workers and they need assistance with some students. We're in an area near some bookshelves to the right. I see a DC go to organize a bunch on an upper level, but a few get knocked over and many start falling. I turn and my co-worker gets my attention and tells where the help is needed. Another co-worker approaches, adjusting her shirt so the midsection is showing - the other does the same. We begin the transition to the next area and come upon a larger building. We enter and then transition to getting a table for dinner. I discover that my parents are there. We're near the table, but I realize I need to go to the bathroom and head to the back section. I arrive near a large glass window, in an area with a green hue, and something feels strange. I look at my hands. I recognize a couple of scars as in waking life - that's strange... I look at the glass and notice a faint reflection. I have the thought that it seems pretty real, yet something still seems off. I look at my hands again and they appear as they're in a dark shadow. I decide to jump into the glass window, but the contact is hard. My mind isn't convinced that it's waking life so I jump again at the glass windowand go right through, and I'm lucid! I begin flying around outside of the building which appears to be a mansion with a light colored stone exterior. There is a body of water surrounding the mansion with large trees overhanging above the water. The trees are beautiful, with branches colored in a light whitish cream, with gnarled portions. They're all filled with deep red leaves as in autumn. Many of the branches drape very low, hovering just above the water surface. I continue to fly forward around this area, farther down the stretch of water, past one massive branch coming from the bank to my left. I want it to be a bit more vivid, so I stop for a moment and ramp up my awareness. This works to a degree. As I begin to wind around the building, toward more trees and I have the thought that it looks like a previous dream - that it's possibly the the back area of the White Terrace. I make my way to the back area of the building, turn to by right, and notice small pillars on the edge of what appears to be a balcony on an upper level. I fly at bit further but the dream goes to a black void. I resolve to hold my awareness. I continue to move my dream arms as I do so, moving them in circular patterns. After a bit, I lose lucidity and have a false awakening in which my dream journal pen falls to the floor and I decide I'll just get it in the morning. I then wake up.

I’m talking to a DV member about lucid dreams and get the feeling that something isn’t right (dreamlike), but I wake
up.

A dream begins to fade a bit, and I suddenly have a thought that I can become lucid if I imagine my hands in front of me. A faded visual of hands comes in front of me and I become lucid as the dream transition into a transition phase/gray void. I can't see anything at this point besides gray, and figure I have the best chance of tping to another scene if I dream spin. I begin spinning, but no visuals appear at the onset. I lose lucidity.

I have a thought about lucidity soon after, and have the thought once again that if I visualize my hands next I'll become lucid. My self awareness doesn't fully come through at this point, and there is a short period of time in a gray transition stage.