Thread: Spontaneous Lucid Dreams?

Sorry if this seems a silly thread guys but i'm completely new to lucid dreaming..

So i'm asleep and all of a sudden i find myself lying on the floor in my house with some random book in front of me. Out of the blue i get this thought "i wonder if this is a dream?" so i decide to find out. I managed to stretch the book right out and of course from that came to the conclusion i was dreaming.

I went outside and i was so amazed at how realistic the environment was, everything from the feel of the bitter cold air on my skin to the distant sounds of cars was as real as if i stepped outside my own house.

I decided to give flying a go which was a lot harder than i thought but i found pointing in the direction i wanted to go stopped me drifting about so much..

I did lots of other stuff but i won't post that here (belongs in the dream journal), i woke up thinking i'd had the most amazing lucid dream but then later in the day some doubts started to cross my mind as to how lucid it was..

I mean can you just become lucid without using any techniques? suddenly in a dream just think 'hang on i wonder if i'm dreaming?'... I am almost deadly sure i was conscious and thinking in terms of wow this is a realistic dream (eg: i was making the environment react not the other way around)..

I just wondered what you guys thought, obviously being a newcomer i'm very excited by the prospect of having such a vivid lucid dream just out of the blue like that with no training but never having a real lucid dream before i've got no way to compare and eliminate the doubts..

Thanks for your time, Dan.