I don't know if you've ever heard of the "layers of lucidity", but if not, you may find it helpful. In every lucid dream you can have different levels of awareness, or consciousness if you will. Reecejones87 made a series of videos on Youtube explaining each layer thoroughly, but I can sum it up to give you an idea.

Layer 0 would include dreams which give you clues about lucidity, for instance, you may see the phrase "lucid dream" written somewhere, you may be on Dreamviews, or anything that implicitly tells you about lucidity, but you wouldn't become lucid.

A layer 1 dream would be like the one you had, in which you become lucid and immediately wake up because of the excitement.

Layer 2 lucid dreams may be what you've been experiencing, you know you are dreaming but you don't really realise what that implies, you have a low level of consiousness.

In layer 3 lucid dreams you would be a bit more aware than in layer 2, but still not able to do everything you want.

Layer 4 is the highest. In this layer you are completely aware that you are dreaming and you know perfectly what this means. The dreams are vivid and you have full control over them.

It's brief, but I hope this helps you! Keep it up, I'm sure you're on the right track