My first lucid dream!

[DynoTAP]

I decided to take a fresh approach on lucid dreaming and did something I haven't seen on any website - yet. Before I went to bed, I wrote down the following in my dream journal: "Tonight I will remember my dream, every little detail of it." as well as, "I will do a reality check in my dream.". I did a full page of each read each over and did a WBTB in the morning. The strange thing about the WBTB is that I only felt my body becoming numb and immediately I was in dream. One thing to note is that I wrote the above by hand not on the computer. Dream: I'm busy doing a seizure count (I'm epileptic in my dream) in a house which I supposedly live in. I tell my mother that I am going to drive the car she says "no you've had too many seizures." I leave anyway and head down a strangely familiar staircase. I get into the car and drive off. While driving I start to feel like I'm getting myself lost, but then my dad points to a small coffee shop. I look behind me and realise that my whole family is in the car with me. I weave through the traffic and glide over the centre-isle curb in the road separating drivers of the opposite sides of the road. Instead of Watching myself drive over the curb I imagine how it would be to jump over it in slow motion. Once I arrive at the coffee shop I am no longer in the car but am running into this small shop with my parents. Inside I find myself in a large K-Mart-like shop, it is vast and expansive, full of differently coloured boxes of cereal, (which is strange because cereal is the one thing I don't eat). I then remember that I am in a dream. I walk down an isle and think "Oh, I should summon Dave!". I close my eyes and think about my best friend and then open them and find myself awake. Aside from forgetting that closing my eyes for a moment will wake me up from my dream, I think it was a great accomplishment becoming lucid. It felt quite real... I wonder though can one make it feel more realistic? Next time I hope to remember to do my reality check.