First off, hello there! I've been lurking on this site for a little while after I found about lucid dreaming... just to pick up some techniques and stuff. I've kept a dream journal for about 2 weeks now and I've been trying to practice reality checks, but haven't actually TRIED to have a lucid till last night.

I woke myself up 5 hours into sleep to try preforming a WILD, but I didn't have too much luck. I think I might have been close for a while, but I couldn't keep completely still, so eventually I began to lose focus and I accidentally faded off into sleep without realizing it. So here's the weird thing: in my (non-lucid) dream, I felt that it was the morning after my WILDing attempts and I realized that they hadn't worked. So I was thinking about lucid dreams in a dream, but I didn't realize I was in fact dreaming! I remember looking at the clock, which said 9:47 or something, and thinking it was morning.. too late to try WILDing again. But I did... in my dream lol. But the really trippy part is that when I laid down to sleep, after a few seconds I felt like I was in sleep paralysis. I'm almost certain of it. My entire body vibrated and I felt really disconnected from my body. And then... when I opened my eyes, I like... knew I was lucid. I did a reality check: plugged my nose and found that I was still breathing. I was ecstatic! So then I went off and perused my first lucid dream desire: flying

Sorry for the novel, but I would really like to know if someone could tell me what the hell kind of lucid dream this was? (obviously not a WILD) And also whether the sleep paralysis I felt was real or not?