My First Lucid Dream; Tues. May 17, 2005.

I was in a house that I knew was mine (not my real house, just a random house that
i seemed to be living in) and I realized something was missing. All I remember is that is wasn't a deck of cards. SO ran next door into my brothers house that looked pretty much like the house I was just in. I found a deck of cards and thought: "This is the thing he took, now I can go back to my house." So then I ran out the front door and it was kind of a ranch setting with a few trees in front of me.My brother started chasing me then and I realized that my running from him was beginning to get harder, as if I was trying to run while in water( this is a common dreamsign in my dreams but I never thought to RC before). But he kept coming. So on impulse I realized: "Hey, this is what always happens in my dreams, so I must be dreaming, because it just can't happen in real life. I was now lucid and began to become excited. I spastically turned around and faced my brother and he stopped, confused. So i jumped into the air, and slowly lifted into the air. I was amazed. As I rose to about twenty feet high, I began to observe my surroundings, There was a lake about 1 mile behind the houses, so I floated off to the lake. And then I saw the beauty of the sun on the lake, and was overwhelmed, so I awoke.