My first LD -- and questions.

Hello,

Last night I believe I experienced my first lucid dream. I fell asleep much later than 1:37 AM and woke up from my lucid dream at 1:54 AM -- a period of less than 17 minutes (actually I think I woke up less than five minutes later). My lucid dream lasted only a few seconds and it was -- I believe -- luck. It started as I randomly lapsed into consciousness and I was not dreaming. I just saw a grey-black color. I don't believe I ever woke up, as I decided to stay asleep despite the fact that I was conscious. I decided to keep my eyes closed. It just came to me when I was sleeping and not dreaming: "I'm sleeping!" I didn't do an RC because I wasn't in a dream yet, so I just had to continue sleeping until images developed. Later, I lapsed out and back into consciousness had a FA. I easily realized that I was dreaming due to the fact that the clock displayed nothing and a magazine was on a stand pointing at me -- one that had not arrived at my house yet and one that I only had read at the bookstore (FWIW, the latest issue of wired). It's worth noting that my left eye was jammed shut now. Stupidly, I decided to get up and go to another room to fall asleep to see if I would wake up in tat room or in my bedroom (in waking life I realize how soooooooo stupid this is.) While doing this I tried to force my left eye open, and while doing so, I opened my actual eye, thereby losing my lucidity and waking up. My questions are:

1. Was I really lucid? I know I was lucid earlier, but I'm not sure if I lost my lucidity before I woke up due to the stupid decisions I made.

2. What method did I use? Like I said, I became lucid before my dream started, but then when the dream did start it was a false awakening.

Thank you for all your contributions!


Spencerical

1) Did you still feel lucid? If yes, then you were lucid the whole way through. If no, then you lost it somewhere along the way.

2) I'd say you did a WILD.

Hope I helped. :)

Yes, I did feel lucid. I knew I was dreaming but I could not think as straight as in waking life. I thought to myself "I'm dreaming!" but I didn't think to do anything I want to do in an LD.

I thought it might be a WILD due to the fact that it happened within the first few minutes of my sleep. But I didn't even attempt a WILD! For what it's worth, I'll reiterate that I lost consciousness before I fell asleep, and a few minutes/seconds in I regained it and had a FA. I don't recall any HI, but it's possible I regained consciousness afterward.

Any confirmations or differing opinions?