You are close. My last dream I looked at some earplugs and thought "they look so real!" (because a part of me knew I was dreaming). Then later I tried jumping up a small set of steps and couldnt. This made me once again think "typical for in a dream." But at that point i realized "hey, i am dreaming" and I really became lucid to the point I knew I could take action and floated my body up. Technically I suppose I was lucid when looking at the earplugs but the light didn't really come on until I couldn't climb the small steps.