I’m glad to have found this place, this is my first post. I need help with one thing please and I’m sorry if I double post here although I checked.

When I go to sleep at night I can’t figure out if I’m lucid dreaming or if I eventually wake up but still border line asleep and simply imagining things. I’ve pretty much always remembered my dreams, most often several dreams in one night but I’ve been trying to lucid dream for only a month now, practicing various techniques and reading some related books. I might of had 3 lucid dreams so far but I need help confirming. The 1st one I only remember standing up and saying “Am I dreaming, I am dreaming, this is so cool!” and waking up straight after, too much excitement I guess. The 2nd one I remember being in this Egyptian paradise and falling on my back and seeing a bright blue pentagram forming on top of me which reminded me of being lucid. Again I woke up straight after. Last knight I was being chased and suddenly realising I was dreaming, I turned around and slapped the monster’s face, he became so small and afraid, I almost felt sorry. All of those 3 times, I just felt the same uncertainty in the morning, that what if I was just awake (border line sleeping) comfortable in my bed and imagining all this? Are these lucid dreams?