First of all I should say that my recall has been incredible the past month. I have been remembering at least 1-2 dreams per night. But I haven't tried to lucid dream...yet

Now, this happened to me this morning.

I got home from the gym, took a nap and went into a dream. In my dream I'm sitting on my mom's couch in her room talking to her. Something tell me that I'm dreaming so I do a reality check. I look at my hand and it looks normal to me, but I still believe I'm dreaming. I look around my surroundings and everything looks normal. At this point I'm confused. I rub my hands together to see if that does anything but all that happens is everything begins to become unstable. I try to do the spin thing to keep myself from waking up but the instability continues. I try to do lucid things before I wake up but I can't create anything. Then I wake up.

Something similar happened to me a few weeks ago in another dream. I'm sitting on my computer desk and I think I'm dreaming. I do a reality check by looking at my hands and my hand again looks normal. I continue dreaming as if nothing is out of the ordinary.

Any ideas?