Last night, I was set on getting into a lucid dream. I did the hand focus method, dream recall, and doing the nose breathing technique, and fell asleep. I then woke up and it looked exactly like a 4 o clock morning (like I sometimes wake up in), and I thought to myself “Dang, no lucid dream?”, Well I forgot to do my reality check, next thing I know everything is bright, lights are on, and my parents are up, I really woke up.
So, if I remembered to do my reality check really quick, would that have been a lucid dream?
I’m not sure if you’re talking about a False Awakening or not. I think that’s what you’re talking about.
I’m not sure, I’m still pretty new to all this lucid dreaming stuff.
sounds like a false awakening to me
If you’d done the reality check it is very likely that you would have become lucid. False awakenings give you a good chance to have an LD. Better luck next time.
I don’t think it was a lucid dream. There was no point where you realized you were dreaming, which doesn’t make it a lucid dream.
This was a FA 
Maybe it was a RA (Real Awakening) and your parents came to your room at 4am and turned the light on? Or maybe your alarm clock was broken 