I am new to lucid dreaming. I am unable to control it when I fall asleep initially. However, if I wake up and immediately fall back asleep my control takes over. First thing that happens is I hear ringing in my ears as I transition from my uncontrolled dream to my controlled dream. I can know I'm dreaming *an uncontrolled dream* but when I decide to control it, the ringing ensues. Is that something anyone else has experienced? Is it normal for your lucid dream to be too much to control that you wake up? And lastly... this is hard to explain... but I imagine doing real life things prior to waking up from a lucid dream. Like I remember checking my phone and reading my texts. This wasn't a controlled part of my lucid dream but occurred at the end of it. So I'm lucid dreaming, thought I woke up when I didn't, performed normal tasks I would do at waking up (check facebook, grab my phone, turn on my laptop etc...) When I really wake up I have to think about if the end of my lucid dream was real... Did I read that text? Was that phone call that woke me up real? Was that post really on my facebook?