Welcome to DV's, Unity!
Many, if not most, LD's tend to occur when a dreamer is very close to waking, so there is a chance that you were "due" to wake up anyway, or at least that, since your consciousness was so close to waking, a wake-up was triggered by the presence of your waking-life consciousness in the scheme of things. In a sense, a wake-up during a LD is very often inevitable... but not necessarily unavoidable:
There are three plans that come to mind for staying with your dream during a wake-up event:
The first is to learn to recognize that you are beginning to wake up, to simply understand that your body is going through the motions of waking up, and to use that understanding -- that it's your body, and not your lucidity, causing you to awaken -- to relax and let the process occur, but with the intention firmly set that you will stay asleep and in the dream; I've found that this interest in staying asleep is often enough to help your body to move past the waking-up process and back to sleeping... in a sense, you are reprogramming your sleep cycle on the fly to postpone a micro-awakening (or final awakening, for that matter) a bit, so that your REM period -- and your dream -- might continue longer. This plan requires a fairly strong mindset, but with practice it should become second nature (I personally don't even give it a thought anymore as I'm working through the process).
The second is to allow the wake-up to occur and return to your dream with a DEILD, which is also a plan that I've found has worked very well for me.
A third -- which might really be an extension of the first -- would be to simply go about your business. For instance, if you are flying about and feel yourself waking up, calmly ignore the sensation of waking and keep on flying.
There are probably other things you can do, but I think that many of the prolonging exercises (spinning, hand-rubbing, etc) tend to accelerate the wake-up process, should you already be in it.
Anyway, that's what I have at a glance; good luck with it, and we'll see you around the forums!.
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