My first lucid - Newbies must read!

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Hi. I'm writing this just after I had my first lucid and it's 11:30 am. I get up late I'll try to keep it structured but I really wanna pass on my experience to new people like mysef. I won't bore you with my dream but I want to get some messages out to new people like me that techniques you read do work and it's not a load of stupid stuff like I thought. At some point in my dream I realised I was dreaming and got excited and woke up. It's happened before. But I DIDN'T WAKE UP! It was a false awakening- I know that now. Anyway I moved to a different dream and I was in a school - it was also linked to my other dream where my IRL car was stolen. Anyway, for some reason I realised I was lucid but kept calm and used the 'spinning' technique and it lasted a little while. I found some people I know in the dream but eventually I woke up again. So this time I thought, is this actually a dream? I was sat there thinking it wa SO real so I bit my lip and pinched my hand a swore I felt pain... so I thought I was awake and entered another dream. I think here's anoter bit I can't remember because I was telling myself I was dumb for thinking I felt pain so i did the blow through nose RC instead - and then I knew I was dreaming! It was cool to feel that RC. Anyway this lucid lasted a good few minutes in dream time and I got a few things done, I tried a lot of techniques like I wanted to find someone and I thought 'When I turn around they will be behind me' or 'when I go through this door I will find what I am looking for'. Anyways eventually I woke up and called it quits since I was finally awake. As you can see I tried a lot of techniques that do actually work, i've been trying on and off for about two months now and finally got one after a huge WBTB. I got up at 8:30, took my car to the garage and went back to get around 10am. And wierdly enough, I woke up at 11:30 ish after this dream, so these dream cycles you hear about really make sense. Thanks