Hello DV world!

I recently found this site after a spontaneous googling of "Lucid Dream" and thought I'd try this stuff out for myself.

It's been about a week since I started actually trying to attain lucidity and have experienced a few things I'd like clarity on. Just for reference, from what I can gather, I have Recalled about 8 dreams in the last six days, I'm not sure if that's adequate or not.

Alright, first question is of something that occurred last night. I was going to try WILD (I think, could be WBTB), so I set my alarm for about three hours after I went to bed. I then re-awoke because of it's ringing but didn't actually turn it off. I just let it auto snooze. I remember thinking, man, I didn't dream, what a let down. I laid there waiting or it to go off again....but what seemed like 5 minutes passed and nothing...what's wrong, I thought. Then I checked the time again an d it was actually 15 minutes before it was supposed to go off. This blew my mind because I new I had dreamed it going off, but it was sooo real, I even felt the minute vibrations on the bed of the vibrator (it was my phone...). So my question is, though painfully obvious, whether this was a false awakening or some other technical term I'm unaware of?

My next question is what constitutes a "dream"? When someone says they recalled three dreams last night...how do they know? Is a dream just per storyline. How do you know it wasn't just one dream that changed? I've been curious about this since I started but just want clarification. I base my aforementioned DR count on the per storyline idea.

Thanks!