Last Wednesday I had the closest thing to lucidity so far. I was walking around with a friend and everything was "weird", just not normal somehow. I said to my buddy "this is just too weird, it must be a dream!" then I am screaming at him at the top of my lungs: "This is a dream!!!" and then I wake up. No reality check but damn, I was so close. I KNOW that I'm right on the brink of a big breakthrough.[/b]
Actually, that does count as a lucid dream, since you knew you were dreaming. You don't need to do a reality check for it to be a lucid dream, they're just for when you aren't certain you're dreaming yet.