Thread: First time?

Heya, I've been lurking the forums for about a week, and I had my first LD this morning...sorta...

I had woken up around 25 minutes before my alarm in real life would've gone off. Then, I went back to sleep.

The strange thing is, my dream after going back to sleep, my first lucid dream ever, was a false awakening. Is this particularly common? I actually remember thinking the previous night, "Lol it would be cool if my first LD was a false awakening." Anyway, I woke up in my dorm, examined my surroundings, noticed something was off, and RC'd. The first RC I tried didn't work exactly. My finger didn't go through my palm. However, my hand felt sorta like fabric, or something, so I was still skeptical of my environment. Then, I tried the nose plug RC and it worked perfectly.

I was excited, but not so much as to wake me up. I was astonished at just how real things seemed. All of my senses appeared to be working quite well. I felt my own hands, and they felt physical, and not just like holograms or something. I was also quite surprised at how much my dorm in the dream looked like my dorm in real life. I didn't outright "fly" or anything, but I did mess around with the gravity and jumped around some.

Then, the dream faded into a different one. A non-lucid one. This dream played out, and I woke up five minutes before my alarm would've gone off.

So, I have two questions from this:

1. It seems like I would've personally done more to maintain control over my dream. It also seems like I would've done more crazy dream stuff. I realize lucidity and control don't always coincide. Does this include control over oneself?
Maybe I just didn't have much lucidity...

2. Is it really plausible that one could enter a dream, experience a dream, go into another dream, experience THAT dream, and then wake up, all in 20 minutes? I guess the answer should be "of course", since I just did it, but something about this just seems off.

Thanks!