[Lucid]

A 'Lucid Dream' occurs when the consciousness becomes fully aware that it is dreaming within the dream.

Imagine that right now in this very moment that you are dreaming but you do not realize it. You believe that you are using some device to connect to something called the internet to communicate with others but in actuality you're asleep in your bed. You're only talking to yourself and there are no others...just different aspects of yourself.

Suddenly the thought enters into your mind "Wait....is this a dream?" and you follow that thought and BOOM you realize that you're dreaming while you're dreaming and your entire consciousness from your "waking state" becomes available to you in your dream and all things become available to you.

I personally have come to feel that just as we can awaken within our dreams, we can also awaken within our waking life once we realize that the waking life is no less a dream than the one we had last night.

Based on my experience, I would say that you were close to becoming lucid within your dream but the actual awakening didn't occur. I would say your consciousness certainly "bubbled up" enough so to speak to pierce through the veil of illusion but you didn't take the last step and push through the veil.

Asking questions in dreams, questioning your reality and environment in dreams, doubting that the dream is real etc are all things which are effectively dynamite that is capable of blowing the illusion to pieces but it must explode in order to achieve lucidity. I would say you certainly lit the fuse and your awareness reached such a state that it began to seriously doubt and question but you still have to push further.

When you have a genuine lucid dream I promise you that there will be no doubt about it and if you're anything like me you'll go around telling everyone about and if you're luckier than me they'll find it fascinating instead of annoying lol!

Good luck!