Thread: Maintaining Lucidity

I had my second lucid dream last night, but I totally botched it.

Basically I was just sitting at my computer while watching TV to the side of me. The movie 'Iron Man' was being shown on TV - this made me realise that I was dreaming (it only just came out in the cinema, and no I haven't seen it yet).

So I got up, walked into the kitchen (which is roughly 5 metres away) and started waking up. My initial impulse was to close my eyes and spin around (as per advice from this forum), but I woke up anyway.

Is this a common occurrence for people who aren't very experienced with LD ?