After reading through most of the sight last night, I was pumped to start having my own adventures while lucid dreaming. I decided that the Reality Check would be my most reliable approach because i'd never tried this kind of thing before. I got into a temporary habit of doing Reality Checks every 5-10 minutes (checking the time twice, reading things over twice, etc) I don't remember exactly how i knew, but I'm positive I must have done a reality check in a dream as soon as i started drifting.

I swear i must have been dreaming because I suddenly got extremely excited and woke up in my bed. After that, i became kind of paranoid i would experience sleep paralysis because my body was tired but my mind was completely awake. I thought i was imagining things but that was probably just my imagination.

After a half an hour or so, I drifted back off to (dreamless?) sleep. This morning I reached over to my make-shift Dream Journal, but i couldn't recall anything of my dream.

So to summarize:
1. Should I be afraid of experiencing sleep paralysis? (I've heard it's extremely uncomfortable)
2. Was this possibly my first big step to lucidity?
3. Usually i have amazing dream recall (I remember many of my dreams through the years) but is it possible that my scare made me forget?

What is your guys' advice?