I am so excited! I had my first lucid experience this morning! I had stopped trying to have lucid dreams a few weeks ago.. I just lost interest and all hope. Then out of nowhere I had one! It goes like this...

I was dreaming I was on a highway sitting on a skateboard that could go really fast. I merged with traffic while sitting on my fast moving skateboard and then took a right on a street that's in my neighborhood though in my dream the street had turned into large brick steps... and when I say large I mean in the wide sense not in the height sense. So then I started to run as fast as I could up the steps (I don't know what I was running to). I got really tired and all out of breath so I stopped.. then for some reason I partly knew I was dreaming. I don't know how to explain it. I just knew that if I kept running that my fatigue would go away. So then I kept running like hell and eventually I no longer felt tired.. At the end of the street was this arch brick way. I ran through and there was my father. He told me to turn around so I did and there was this large crowd waiting for me to give a speech. I stood behind a podium that was on a table and then for some reason I became lucid. I just knew it was a dream for sure.. but just to make sure I did a reality check by plugging my nose and breathing.. and it worked! Oddly enough, I didn't feel that excited. I was more fascinated by the fact that I could breathe through my plugged nose haha. Anyways I was looking down at the floor and I could see my brothers arm and shirt to my left... but then it got weird. It was like a freeze frame of my brothers arm and shirt and the floor. I could move around and all.. but it was like this freeze frame was burnt into the back of my eyes so that it was all I could see... It turns out that when I woke up my left arm and blue blanket ("brother's shirt") were exactly in the same position that my brother's arm and shirt were in when I was dreaming. I suppose I was dreaming with my eyes partly open. Has anything like this ever happened to you?[/i]