Thread: Was this a LD?

I had heard of LDing before, but I had no idea what it was, so I decided to research it last night and I found this website. I looked through the tutorials and I found it really interesting, and read through the site for about two hours. So anyways, when I went to bed I didn't really try to have an LD, I just went to sleep. I had a dream anyways though, and here's how it went, but it was really short.

I felt myself waking up and sat up in my bed. Then, even though I THINK I didn't choose to do it, I plugged my nose but I was still able to dream, and I though to myself, "I'm dreaming!." After that, I sort of "saw" myself sleeping, but I though I was actually waking up, and then the dream ended and everything went black, and then I woke up in the real world.

I don't know if I was actually lucid, or if I was just dreaming ABOUT being lucid. Can anyone answer this?

I also have a second question. I just read the section about WILDs and then I realized something. I had felt those "vibrations" before. For some reason whenever I had lain down and just thought (I always though of myself on a never-ending roller coaster not thinking of anything else), I would feel a jolt and snap awake, and felt the feeling you get when somebody pops out at you and they say, "BOO!" Can anybody tell me how to stay "half-asleep" when those jolts hit you?

Thanks