A few nights ago I had a dream from a girls prospective, and this time she was running down a long dark hallway divided into many rooms with a clear door on each side. As she got to the last room in the hallway she stopped and she was getting scared as the lighting started to fade to black. Right then I realized I was dreaming and told myself; hmm... lets see if I can force myself to wake up from this dream. So I started to pull myself out of the dream almost as if i was ripping my conscious away from my body.

As I did this 3 things happened, everything went black, I heard loud vibrations in my ear, then I woke up; all within a few seconds. So my question is... did I actually gain lucidity? What is weird though is when things like this happened to me I never have 100% control over my thoughts and actions in the dream. More like 50%, I just realize I am dreaming and make a quick decision to wake up but I can never tell myself to do something for example reality checks.

Also another question, when I dream normally it never really looks like what you would see when we are awake, but more like a cloudy movie playing in my mind... I was wondering if a REAL lucid dream would look exactly like what I am seeing around my room at this moment?

IDK... what do you guys think?