I haven't attempted lucid dreaming for a year until last night as I had watched inception the night before and was reminded of it. I first heard of lucid dreaming in psychology 101 where it greatly interested me however I was in college at the time so sleeping want exactly natural. The technique that I believe works for me is looking at my hands which I use in real life when something seems a little offgoing that it will carry overt to dreaming. Last night while in the midst of a dream I looked down at my hands and saw three fingers on one hand and a club on the the ornery and knew I was dreaming. I realized in the dream that I was in fact dreaming I found that things were hard to control except that when I used a swimming motion I could flt in which case as soon as I was in a situation I couldnt control or didnt like in would use that to get oyt of it. I dont remember exact scenarios but I did wake up in a better than first thinf in the morning mood. I guess my question is did I actually achieve lucidity or was it just on my subconscious because I had seen inception a few nights earlie??