Long, but I appreciate responses.

I've been trying to lucid dream for about a week now..anyway, my dream recall is quite bad but it's been getting better. Last night I took some melatonin (3mg) and tried to dild, failed, but had my alarm set at 7:45 am for work. Anyway, I woke up at 6:30 cause I had to go to the bathroom, so instead of staying up I figured I would try to do a wild. Here is what I remember: entering sleep paralysis then a series of false awakenings. Keep in mind I have never experienced a lucid dream from purposely trying or a false awakening but I've read about it. It was so real I got up to take my morning pills etc but then I woke up looked at the time and realized my alarm never went off! So then I went back to sleep. I remember I had another fa and this time remember to do a reality check and for my first time ever it worked. I pinched my nose and could breathe, then attempted to picture an outside setting. I immediately woke up from excitement haha. Before my alarm went off, I entered a dream where I was semi lucid talking to a kid I knew from way back on a school bus about a song.

As an experienced lucid dreamer, what would you have done at what point?

Thanks.