My sortof LD experience

So after doing reality checks during the day for only one day since finding this website, i took some valerian root and went to bed. I had a pretty long normal dream but then for some reason it was like somthing insid of me was telling me to look at my hands. I did and there were only like 4 fingers i think and they were colored like a fake tan color an dalmost looked like a troll's hand or something. So right then i was loike sweet! im dreaming! and then i woke up from excitment. First of all why did I just want to look at my hands for no aparent reason? Also, (I know its off topic), If you can tell yourself to do realty checks in your dream, aren't you already lucid since you told yourself to look at your hands or pinch your nose?

Looks like reality checks work for you.

To answer your questions was looking at your hands one of your reality checks you were doing the previous day, if so then thats probably why. Because you were doing them the previous day it incorparated into your dream. And no you aren't already lucid because at that point you don't know that it is a dream.

Was this your first lucid and first attempt at a lucid dream?

Yea pretty much. I listened to one of the mp3s the night before but found it extremely anoying so i decided to try something else