Dream within a dream and lucidity.

[elusiveLucid]

Hiya everyone. I've been researching the lucid state for a while now, and i've been pretty good at recalling dreams up to this point anyway, but i'm just starting out on the road to lucidity. I have had lucid dreams in the past - albeit accidentally - and they were simply amazing. The detail in the dream and the feeling of being 'awake' yet still dreaming is so indescribable. I find, like so many others, that as soon as I achieve the lucid state, I either wake up or the lucidity slips away from me and I lose the detailed state of consciousness and slip into another dream state. But, practice makes perfect and i've came a long way from a few months ago. The feeling of the lucid state is enough to spur me on to get competent at achieving it. I had a weird experience last night that I thought i'd share: I became lucid in a dream within a dream... In this second-level dream, I used the reality testing method to achieve lucidity - in this second-level there was something that confirmed to me that I was dreaming, and suddenly I became lucid. I couldn't hold onto it however and I became too excited and woke up - in the original dream! I then explained to my dream characters that I just had a lucid dream, but it felt like "I" was having the lucid dream - not the "me" in the original dream if you get my meaning. It's like I bypassed the previous 2 dreams, achieved lucidity and became conscious, then returned to the original dream... So weird and yet so interesting. No wonder I woke up! Anyone else have any experiences like this?