Its so hard to explain i find. Basically i also wake up sort of, but its more
like becoming conscious that im drifting into sleep....but not dreaming. I
can then keep myself in the conscious, falling asleep stage, which sort of
feels like your leg does when its asleep but my whole body feels like that.
My eyes are open and everything is fuzzy. I have to get myself out of that
fuzzy, tingly stage, and what i do is sort of push out of my body. Not literally
but dreaming this. I always start this way. It takes about a split second
to push out and float above my body or stand on the floor. Now the lucid
state is vivid and i just fly somewhere and do whatever i feel like doing.

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Actually, when I was experiencing my first lucids (probably 1-10) I would get a very characteristic "shudder", as though my dream were shivering like the back of an animal when a fly lands on it. The dream would shiver, then stabilize, and then I'd either continue the dream or wake up.

Now the only characteristic thing that happens is that I often start laughing at myself for taking so long to realize that I was in a dream.
That might sound strange to some ppl, but i totally know what youre saying.