Thread: First recall exercise, it went great! But was that an actual lucid dream?

[Please let me know if this should be in the noob forum!]

So last night, after I decided I had done enough research into these topics and it was time to get to business, I set up a notebook and pencil on my bedside last night before going to sleep and told myself as I fell asleep that I would remember my dreams (which was not easy as I was quite drunk .

Anyway, it went great! When I woke up for the first time in the morning (that I noticed), at first I forgot about everything and started adjusting my position to get comfortable and right back to sleep. But within seconds I remembered and I laid still, eyes closed and started remembering. After a while I started writing down everything that came back to me, and the more I wrote the more I remembered. In total, I recalled 7 different "scenes", although some of them may have belonged to the same dream. I was quite satisfied as this was the first time I made a conscious effort to recall dreams.

One particular dream, though, caught my attention:

I'm at my house and I need something that's on the roof (2 story house). So I step outside onto the street in order to jump/fly onto the roof and retrieve the needed object. This seems like the logical way to get something from the roof. However, I'm not too thrilled about the idea of having to get on the roof as I perceive it as a chore (not because I have problems with height or flying). So I decide I'm going to walk down the block a bit to give me room to break into a run to gather momentum for the jump/flight onto the roof. It is easier to do it if you have momentum, it seems. So, as I'm walking down the block, I start thinking to myself that it would be wiser of me to get up there without a running start, which, it seems, is perfectly possible, only harder. The reason I'm thinking this would be wiser is because, by doing it the easy way, I'll get used to the easy way and, if I ever become lucid during a dream, I'll have a harder time managing to fly. In the end, I decide "to hell with it, I'm doing it the easy way because I don't feel like making an extra effort right now", so I start running down the street back towards my house.

That is all I remember, my recollection ends while I'm running down the street towards my house. So, my question is, was this just my subconscious mind manifesting my fixation on someday becoming lucid, or was I actually aware that I was dreaming? If you ask me, I did know it was a dream, because I followed a train of thought that made me question my own actions at the moment and their possible effects on future dreams. But, while in the dream, it never hit me the I was dreaming, only in an implicit manner.

On an extra note, I also had a dream in which I fell asleep at a table while waiting for something/someone and then woke up when the restaurant was about to close for the day. That was strange and exciting to recall, because I had never been aware of falling asleep and waking up during a dream!