Two Firsts in One Night

Well after three weeks of working on my dream recall and the occasional FILD, I finally had my first Lucid Dream this morning, almost by accident.

The night was a very interesting one from start to finish. I forgot to take my nicotine patch off before bed last night and the result was some very vivid dreams that I kept waking up from and hence remembered quite clearly. As a woke I kept making quick notes in my journal as I had never had dream recall like it. One dream in particular I remembered in extreme detail and I remember writing pages and pages about the dream only to find nothing of the sort in the journal this morning. This must have been a false awakening which is a first for me as well.

Then this morning when I woke up I looked at my clock and realised I had twenty more minutes before I had to get up for work and so I decided to go back to sleep. As I was laying back down on my bed, in a passing thought, I said to myself "I am going to have a lucid dream" but more or less immediately my mind drifted off elsewhere. I remember hearing a few strange noises as I fell to sleep but I didn’t move and just brushed them off as other people in the house getting ready for work.

The next thing I remember is feeling awake but seeing nothing but blackness (it was light by this time so this was strange) and hearing a strange and eerie noise. I thought to myself "I wonder if I am dreaming" and then, without even needing to do a reality check, I just knew that I was. I decided that since this was my dream I wanted to stop the annoying noise and sort of willed it out of existence however instead of the noise stopping a clear image of my room appeared and I started floating out of my bed into the centre of it. At this point I got very excited at what was happening and everything got fuzzy very quickly. I remembered to rub my hands together but it had no effect and I woke up moments later. Still, I was very pleased with the experience.

I am trying to figure out what method of inducing an LD this came closest too so I can try that method again. Do you think I managed to WILD without realising it or was this just a DILD?