So i had my first lucid yesterday. Really happy about it. I remember being really excited about realising i was dreaming, yet managed to stay calm and control my dream (slightly). The whole experience has left me with a few questions though.

The first is whilst i knew i was dreaming (performed a reality check) and proceeded to fly and bounce around the room (the whore room felt like a bouncy castle), about 10 seconds later i had returned to my ignorant dream state. Does loosing lucidity happen quite frequently? and if so is there anyway to prevent it from happening?

The second question is whilst at the time i felt in control of the situation, it did feel like my mind was on autopilot, i was doing actions without thinking. The best way to put it is, i felt like a kid in a toy shop, just manically running around playing with everything without thinking. Is this common?

Finally when i woke up, the whole experience felt like a distant memory and i am finding it hard to believe that i was actually lucid (i know i was because i remember being in the dream, RCing, controlling the dream and then writing down in the DJ when i woke up). But a day later it really doesn't feel like i was in the dream controlling it. Is this common with lucid dreams?

These are kind of trivial questions but tutorials don't seem to mention anything on them. Thanks in advance guys