Hehe, your story makes me think about Jack Sawyer in The talisman by Stpehen King. If I can ask it would be interesting to know if you developed any kind of mental attitude or ritual or technique that helped you increasing the frequency of lucid dreams. Being a newbie my first goal is to have more dreams to get familiar with myself and later on to develop abilities, even if I was surprised by the things I managed to do in my first LD.