Hello everyone!
My name is Linus and I'm new here! This is my story:

A couple of months ago I spent some time in Chile (I'm from Sweden) and I read Carlos Castañeda's book The art of dreaming. So I began practicing his trick of looking at my hands once an hour.
A few weeks ago I managed to go lucid while asleep. I had a dream that shitloads of camels started running through my bedroom wall. I thought "Hell, this can't be true, I must be dreaming, I better look at my hands!". And lo and behold, my hands were dizzy, as if I shook them violently! I realised that I was dreaming and entered what I think was a lucid state. I decided to try to fly (as everyone else I guess, haha!). Of course everything went black, and then the regular dreaming started again.
Now, a few weeks after I'm beginning to suspect that I just dreamt that I had a lucid dream, since I've been thinking so much about it lately. The reason I think this might be the case is that it didn't really feel real. I think I was aware, but it was nothing like the real waking world, but more distant in a way.
Is this normal? Was I lucid? Are there any tricks to avoid this and go further? Not that I don't feel great about this dream, but I believe there's more to get out of this.
Any thoughts on this appreciated!