First Attempt at Lucidity

This is copied right out of my Dream Journal, but I was wondering what your guy’s take on it is. Is it possible that I was entering my dream? Was I in a hypnagogic state? I am very unsure this being my first experience. I want to try again tonight but not pull back like I did last night.

Dream trip #1
Type: NL
Awaken to recall dream at: 11:45 PM
Method: WILD
Dream trip: This was my first experiment with lucid dreaming ever. I have tried to create hallucinations using my mind before but nothing of this style. I wanted to go straight from sleep into a dream knowing what I was doing. I was very scared of what might happen, could I be stuck in the dream forever? I got a piece of paper and pencil and put it by my side along with my cell phone as a watch. I was on my back and relaxed myself. I close my eyes and began to count, “I am in a dream 1, I am in a dream 2…” At first there was a small bending in perception in my peripheral. The sides of my vision began to move inward. I remember smiling; the experience was new and exciting. The sides of my vision were an off grey while the middle was a darker black. After this came a long period of nothing going on my vision was all black. I heard my dog whining he sleep, dreaming actually and outside was the sound of water. Slowly faces began to appear, they are not clear nor anything close to real but rather my mind wandering. The best way I can describe it is as grey outlines on a black pieces of paper. The faces are biting, what seems to be my nose, could be my third eye, ego etc. I suddenly feel slightly removed from my body as though my knee caps are above my real body. Most likely I was just really relaxed. There is unexpectedly a burst of motion on my eyes. I see the running motion, slowly I can focus in on it. It is a running creature, but more of spikes that are put together that are moving. Then it explodes in color, it is man colors constantly changing. I wrote down that it was pink, purple, and had many spikes. I try to grab onto it and bring myself into the dream, it fails. I keep counting to myself and saying, “I am in a dream 300”. Grey blocks move over the sides of my vision and I say to myself this is enough for tonight don’t go farther than you feel you want to go. I open my eyes totally refreshed. I was not asleep. I believe that I entered the beginning of the hypnagogic state. I was astonished at my experience, mind blown really. I had hallucinated on a small scale it seems.
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