You may have been in the Real Time Zone and then shifted signals to the lucid dreaming environment (when the bed was misplaced) , and that may be the reason you ended up falling into a dream from that. Your mind didn’t want to be lucid. Perhaps the real time zone was felt very bizarre for you so your mind triggered your lucidity.
And to answer both this and your question about lucid dreaming.
Think of it this way…
Most of the things you do are ordered from the subconscious.
Your bodily functions are mostly Subconscious, digesting system, nervous system etc…
You wake up, what do you do? Do you really consciously decide to brush your teeth and eat breakfast? To take that shower and go to work? You just do it. You open the door in a certain way, you do everything as your SC is programmed to. The SC is the “doer” in the brain, the conscious part is just a tool, an analytical tool.
Now, consider this.
When you go to bed and you “fall asleep”, you lose your consciousness, consciously that is. You are still there, taking certain choices and moves. With time , practice , awareness will raise and you will be more aware of it and learn to manipulate it.
What you can do is realize that with any perspective you have at this moment, you can start programming your SC to what you want. Realize this:
When you are asleep, just before entering REM (and also during the dream), you take a decision if you want to be lucid. You are still there, Subconsciously.
That’s what the breathing meditation is all about. Connecting the most simple yet beautiful conscious/subconscious activity. Breathing. Most of the time, you are not aware of your breathing, your SC takes care of it, but you can be aware of it easily, that’s why it’s so useful, combine that with the power of air, holding so much energy , and it’s the easiest and still my favorite meditation technique ^^
What you need to learn is to become conscious of subconscious activities, eventually, you can go to sleep deciding while programming your mind to make certain decisions.
You wake up at the time you thought of and you start connecting the waking with the sleeping until you get the feel of the subconscious activity.
The things is that people think you need to be conscious in order to be aware.
If you’re not conscious ,in our way of thinking, knowing you are in bed, “sleeping”, counting the time etc, they think they’re just “not there”.
It’s just a different form of being there, and just like you are every day learning how to deal with the conscious mind, dealing with the subconscious mind is much more meaningful, rewarding and challenging.
First of all, start doing Reality Checks. They don’t have to be what you see in guides… Do the ones that are right for you.
I myself never do RCs in the way of checking hands, clock etc… If I want to do one (consciously) I just test it, using my senses of course. I never find the need in the dream to do a reality check, I just know I am dreaming, shifting…
Start testing your reality as often as you like and start( everything in your own way )
becoming aware of subconscious activities.
It’s hard to explain but if you really do it, you suddenly find yourself 2 hours after you woke up remembering that you were lying in bed deciding to wake up , have a lucid dream, whatever…
It’s not a conscious memory, it’s this feeling it’s hard for you to explain, as if that was a dream, just a vague impression left in your mind of you there, but you know that you did do it.
About getting exciting dreams, that’s not what you should worry about.
You’ll get better and better at it with practice.
I suggest that you try relaxing in the hour or 2 prior to going to bed while keeping a positive, serene and calm state of mind. As you drift off to sleep, have positive thoughts, run up nice memories, anything you enjoyed. Try stimulating as much of your senses as possible. As you are becoming more sleepy, start thinking about dreaming, about “falling asleep”, think about the coming shift in your consciousness. Think about the dreams you want to have, think about being lucid, experience that feeling of being lucid in a dream. Do not experience anything negative about it such as fears it won’t happen, doubts, stress whatever… Have that experience in your mind, and just think how nice it will be to be there, project that wish without any expectations. Just send it outwards, and go to sleep while having as much as possible.
It is very important to be relaxed.
Try to lie completely still in the bed, even if takes you an hour (or few 
) to fall asleep. You may move a little if you have a certain itch or something alike, but in general, pick a comfortable position and lay still in it, concentrating intensely on the mental experience you are having , whether it’s image, sound, touch, smell or taste. The more you can stimulate the better.
I hope those tips help ^^