ok... here's my problem: most of the RC's posted can't work for me because most of the time I'm in third-person (isn't that a trip? XD) I can also read normally in my dreams and do so all the time.

this may or may not be because I have asperger's syndrome- my brain isn't wired like normal.
[speculation=unfounded]ie: normally (from what I've heard) you can't read in a dream because dreaming is left-brain while reading is right-brain. I can because people with asperger's have better right/left brain interaction.[/speculation]

so my question becomes: how do I tell if I'm dreaming? I guess the obvious one would be "am I, or was I recently, in third-person?" (it varies from moment to moment,) but that leans heavily on memory, which can be fuzzy in dreams. obviously, if I see something that makes me question the reality of my dream, I will snap back into first-person, forgetting that I was in third-person.

what would make me question it in the first place? habit I suppose. I cannot use physical reminders- I wear a religious emblem and haven't taken it off for years but it still doesn't show up on my dream-body. sometimes, in my dream, I'm not even me.

I think I may have become semi-lucid last night. (which brought on the interest)

it sort of disturbed me- but mostly due to my own twisted mind. a demon wearing my mother's face asked me "how much is your life worth? how many people would you sacrifice to live?"