^^ At a glance, DeDromer, I would say that you might be paying a bit too much attention to your body, be it dream or physical.
Since, once in a dream, your body is nothing more than just another projection of your imagination, a DC created by your dreaming mind, it really is a good idea to avoid expecting it to do what it would do easily in waking life. Trying to move your dream body, physically, can indeed be difficult, especially in the early moments of a LD, because you are sending signals to a physical body that is currently ignoring you (because it's asleep), and your dreaming mind/unconscious has not yet "programmed" your DC body to respond to your requests. This is because, in a real sense, it doesn't know yet that "You" are present, giving commands that might not match the given dream parameters.
I would suggest that, should this happen again, you avoiding trying to get up in a typical physical motion to move. Instead, try something different, like allowing yourself to sink into your bed, or perhaps just lie there and imagine you are in a different dream scene... if you can confidently expect a change of scene, and a little traveling without even considering moving any legs or arms, you might find yourself more able to navigate your dream, and to change its scenery.
Speaking of that: using your bedroom mirror is a good idea (though you might not need it anymore, should you try the stuff I said above), but it wasn't that it was missing that was your problem; it was that you decided, in the dream, that it was a problem. Doing that will likely make it a problem, I think... I'm not surprised at all that walking through the door yielded those results, because your feeling of loss for the missing mirror led your dreaming mind to reset, rather than send you somewhere else... I bet the mirror would have been there, too, had you gotten a chance to look around before waking (sometimes you need to look twice, BTW).
Finally, if you lose track of your waking-life consciousness during a WILD and then find yourself lucid, you've actually completed a DILD transition instead of a WILD. But be assured there is nothing wrong with that; lucid is lucid, right?
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