Thread: how to wake up (and my first lucid dream experience!)

Last night, I had my first **PROPER** lucid dream. First, I was in my mums house looking at the TV, and it was baby blue with white numbers on it. I did a reality check (which is a habit so i guess it went into my dream) and I had 7 fingers (I remember the place of my extra 2 very very clearly), then it blanked and I was in some kind of room (now that I think about it, it was like the corner of my sisters room in my old house), and i was holding a strawberry. I recalled what I read prior to the dream about control, so I turned it into ice (i think) and then threw it in the bin. i was lucid by then, obviously. So then I blanked again, (or teleported?) to a weird art room with easels etc. I met my classmate there, she had 4 fingers I think. She said she had arthiritis (what), and i kept looking for ways to wake up, because ive been scared of lucidity because of what ive heard (SP, hallucinations, shadow people etc...) and I kept looking, and my friend couldnt tell me. So after Id looked everywhere, I woke up.

I was scared and I kind of woke up with breath loss for a second, and I was too scared to go back to sleep. I did reality checks when I woke up though.

So yeah, how would I wake up next time? Ive been looking around, and its made me less scared of lucidity than I was this morning.
thank you.