Somewhat lucid(maybe) dream.

[heinzbitte]

I have been a member here for a while.  But I left then when I came back something had changed so I needed to get this name and never posted with it, so sorry for making this my first post with this name.

I just had a dream where I woke up in the dream, that was the first one I can remember having.  Then I went downstairs and did everything I normally do.  
But then I started taking my fingers off and putting them back on.  I realized that you can't do this and thought I must be dreaming.  So then I tried to do what I wanted in it but couldn't.  I then tried to wake up for some reason and failed.  Shortly after I either forgot I was in a dream or decided it wasn't.  Everything that happened after should have let me know it was a dream.

Is there a way I could not slip out of knowing it is a dream?

[Arie]

What you had is what is commonly refered to as a 'false awakening,' you wake up from a dream directly into another dream which you think is the physical.  If you lost your awareness that your dreaming... you really weren't highly lucid.  I'm sure I've had alot of those types... I forget them easily because their not very vivid.

The real question.... is how can we consistently obtain highly conscious lucid dreams?

Have any of you bought the Lucid Dreaming Kit selling on the net?