Thread: did i induce lucid dreaming or not?

last night i was working on my dream recall and i was setting my cell phone timer for 90 minutes and when it woke me up i could rember my dreams just fine so i decided that i would try lucid dreaming now.

so this is how it happened

ok in my dream i was sitting on the bus when of my friends, alisha, started making out with my friend, dan. i was sitting there like it was normal then all of a sudden i was thinking to my self "nows the chance" and i remembered that dan has a girlfriend and that alisha and him werent THAT close. then everything seemed to freeze or kinda fade away. and i tried to open my eyes and i was just laying in my room again. at this point i tried to sit up, it could have been that i i was either really really tired or i was still dreaming, but my whole body was tingling and i felt like i was floating and in front of me it looked like there was heat heat rising likeon a hot day when you look down the road at asphalt. but that also could have been my eye it gets blurry sometimes. Then this morning i realized i should have tried to look at my alarm clock or at my dream journal or try to turn on my light.

any suggestions on if it was real or a dream
Thanks,
Chris

Hey, man. Welcome to Dream Views.

Looks like you were definitely at the threshold. You were able to realize a strange sitaution for what it was, and began rationalizing why it couldn't be the way it seemed. The only step after that is to actually attribute the weirdness to the fact that "I'm dreaming!!" If you can do this, without getting so excited that you either wake up or lose the dream.
What it sounded like happened afterward was might have been a false awakening. They are very common with lucid dreaming. You end up "waking up," back in your room, only to realize that you're not really awake. These can be both good and bad for many reasons, the most dominant of which seem to be that they are great ways of inducing continuous lucid dreams, but are also quite often very scary/shocking/surprising, depending on how it is you find out that it's a false awakening.
Aside from this, it could have been that you were between asleep and awake, which is common also. Sometimes, as you're waking up, your senses become aware of the waking world, at different times. Your entire body could have been awake, but your sense of sight was still stuck in the dreamworld for a few seconds. It's not too common, I don't think, but also not too rare.

So, my verdict? I'd say that was the beginning of your first lucid experience.
Keep it up!