Pretty sure I lucid dreamt last night

Ok i'm pretty excited about this, it wasn't very long or interesting but this is what happened.

I was in a dream of a dream (kind of like inception), I was at a restraunt and I had to use the bathroom. All of a sudden I am naked and there is a lady behind me so I run to the bathroom instead. This causes me to do a reality check for some reason, I look down at my hands, it was like I was tripping on acid or something .. my hands had no pinky finger and my other fingers had doubled up on themselves. Suddenly shit got weird, I was back in the restraunt somehow and people were staring at me, I was making loud noises with my mouth. I walked outside then wake up to the first dream, I tell my partner all about the lucidity I just had. Then I wake up in real life (had to reality check because it freaked me out), all my fingers were in correct positions :)

This has to count as an LD right? my first ever time of telling myself to reality check.

Sounds like an LD to me, congrats. :)

Well if it wasn't I definitely had one last night, was freaking awesome!

The only requirement for a dream to be considered a lucid dream, is knowing that you are dreaming while you are in the dream. If you knew you were dreaming, you were lucid. If not, you were pretty damn close, and may have simply ignored your successful RC :P. You experienced a false awakening as well. Those are pretty crazy sometimes and can definitely catch you off guard. It would be a good idea to get into the habit of RCing whenever you wake up. Congrats on your success and good luck in your future efforts!