Hello and welcome to dreamviews! Ya lucid dreaming is really exciting i myself have never fully experienced it and am very new myself! My dream recall has also been somewhat delayed in the past, its actually pretty neat to remember it a few minutes later. But it sounds like you were very close!! Good luck on dreamviews!

Here is a few links that should help you get started and understand the lingo!

An acronym list of the Dreamviews terminology
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=2954

And a few tutorials from the dreamviews site!
http://www.dreamviews.com/tutorials.php