I've become quite interested in lucid dreaming lately, and decided I wanted to try it out. I have terrible dream recall, so I started recording my dreams in a journal. I haven't been doing this for long, but something happened this morning that has left my confused. :\

I believe I had my first lucid dream (at least, first that I recall).
I woke up around 7 this morning because of the commotion. I was too distracted to remember my dream. I stayed up until 9 and fell asleep. I had a dream, but it felt like a continuation. I realized I was picking up where I left off! I think it was a WBTB? But I wasn't thinking about it when I fell asleep...ahh, well.

I won't go into too much detail about the dream. It was really quite lame. I was at the mall with my friend Kara, but I'm not close with her so it was awkward. Her best friend Alice showed up. Kara wandered off with her. I walked towards the exit of the mall and saw them talking behind a plant (?? lol) while staring at me. I could tell they were talking about me.
I thought, "I'm just going to leave and be cool, not confront them."
I was about to leave through the sliding doors (like a grocery store??) when something hit me. I'm not sure what caused it, but suddenly, I put my hands up in the air and said "HOLD UP! This is a dream!"

As soon as I said that, something awful and strange happened. A force pulled on my body, like it was trying to pull me down to the floor. My body was like...vibrating? It was numbing, and odd, and difficult to explain.
You know that feeling you get when you know something bad has happened? When a pain runs through your stomach and you think "Oh shit!" It was kind of like that, but 50x stronger and seemed to run throughout my whole body. It wasn't painful, but definitely wasn't pleasant. It was as if gravity was having its revenge on me. It surprised me so much I woke up. DAMN!

Looking back, it felt as though my body was going through a sort of...metamorphosis? Before it happened, it was like I was a spirit. I don't recall looking down and being able to see my body, my presence was just...there! It kind of felt like my body was solidifying, I'm not sure. Whatever it was, it scared the hell out of me.

I recognized that I was dreaming, so I guess it was a lucid. But has that ever happened to anyone else? Or is that common? I am new to this...maybe I'm just a wimp.