Quote Originally Posted by Reality_is_a_Dream View Post
It is only a dream sign if it is reoccuring, but it was a lucid dream. It is common to wake up from the excitement your first lucid dream; you eventally build up an immunity.

I have never had that happen to me, but I know that other people have had reality checks that worked, but worked differently than they expected to. Congrats on the lucid, and good luck with the next ones!
Haha, yea. Excitement, shock, fear, overjoy, it can all wake you up. The point being it happens to most of us our first times, and you need to do it alot to get into the swing of it and be able to stay lucid.

I was also reminded of a reality checking method by JShaffer's post:

Someone would write 'Dream' or 'Reality Check' on their hand in waking life and would check if it was there as a RC. If it changes or isn't there, you are dreaing.

So, it is not rare for that to come up instead of a 7th finger in your dreams.