I am new to lucid dreaming and have been doing reality checks the last few days to prep myself for a lucid dream. I know i am getting close because each night my dreams are becoming more frequent, more vivid, and easily remembered. I have had 2 similar experiences the past two nights.

I usually have 3 part dreams, broken up by the times i awake in the middle of the night. The last two nights the same thing has happened. Right before falling back asleep for the third dream, i consciously ask myself over and over, "am i awake or am i dreaming"? Almost immediately after I begin I feel this strange rushing feeling to my face and body and I get intense wave of chills throughout my body (im not physically cold, its strange, like the feeling you get right when you get goosebumps but continuous).

The first night I dreamed that I woke up in my bed. There was different people in my room and i kinda floated down onto the floor and talked to them briefly before waking up in my bed again (for real) and getting extremely frustrated because of the opportunity i had just missed.

Last night I had the rushing chills more intensely. The interesting thing is, it lasted the entirety of the dream and not just during my transition from wake to sleep. With it, comes fear because of the bizarreness and uncomfortableness of the feeling. In my dream I awoke in my bed and my room was normal. The only cues were there was a strange football game on TV (the colts were losing 45-5 to the giants, shoulda known right there it was a dream) and there was just a bizarre feeling to the world as something was just not right. I did my wake up routine and even looked straight in the mirror for a few moments (i looked completely normal). After getting on my facebook for some reason I had a different email and somehow this told me I was dreaming. I awoke immediately, scared and still experiencing the chills for a good 30 seconds.

Somebody please tell me what I am experiencing with the chills, and the best way to become lucid in my current situation.