Two years I have been at this, I was starting to think either I couldnt do it or that LDing isn't real anyway.

Ive got a dream journal with over 100 entries at this point. I have studied deeply on the subject and have tried MANY exercises. I been reading through Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming for a while now. Nothing was working, but then out of no where I was lucid for roughly 5 seconds.

A girl was following me down a street on foot, no stalking, but just taking the same path. She was watching me alot and acting very flirty. I got to this strange rock ledge that I sat on and turned around and looked at her. She walked into a house (must have been hers). A few moments later she came back out and just looked at me. Then invitingly turned around and walked back in. I followed into this bedroom but was alone. Then I just suddenly thought "this is a dream". It was weird that I just "knew" it was a dream with no reality checks or spotting something strange. I just sat there and thought "so this is a lucid dream." I noticed everything was so realistic. I saw a dresser with many family pictures on top. I walked up and grabbed two and tried to see the faces. The image was totally normal except the face has a strange smudge in it.

I then thought, "In an LD my hands should not be normal." So I looked at them and my index finger had a strange smudged swirld for a finger print. Thats when I had a false awakening and lost lucidity.

So here were the conditions:
I was on vacation.
It was roughly 4 in the morning.
I was sick with a cold.
I had taken 500mg melatonin.
Before I went to bed I told myself to recognize my dreamsigns.

Hope this gives hope to those of you who have been trying without success. It took me two years but I finally got one!