OK, well I just woke up from my second lucid dream ( my first was when I was a kid) and it was crap. I had a false awakening, and I kept trying to pull my sheets off from over my head, but I couldn't. I would pull them and pull them and they would magically reappear, not allowing me to even see my room. After trying this for what seemed like 10 minutes, I just laid there and thought "Well then, I'm dreaming." So I did the hand through hand RC, which didn't work, but I felt pretty confident that I was not awake. Then I got really excited and started thinking about what I would do. So I thought, "I want to go to the beach." Nothing happened. So I shouted out loud, "I want to go the beach!" Still nothing. So I kind of just laid there for a minute trying some other things like floating and such, none of which happened. Then I said "This sucks, I want to wake up now." And I woke up.

So yay, my first LD in years, and it sucked. Is it usually like this when you first start trying? I couldn't do any tricks whatsoever, it was just like waking life.