Reality Check help

Ok so last night I had a dream that I woke up in a different room. I stood up and saw a mirror next to the bed. I looked into it and I looked completely different. I did a reality check (without knowing myself I was dreaming, so it wasn't really a lucid dream) and it failed. My hands looked completly different. My dream self then woke up and I remember I was telling everyone I had my first lucid dream, then the real me woke up. Completely. Aggravated.

This is the THIRD time I've had a lucid dream within a dream, without knowing myself I was lucid. I even made a topic last week about this if you want to see it. I never realized MYSELF that I was lucid. Or did I? I'm so confused >:( please help.

I don't understand what happened. If your hands looked completely different, why did the reality check fail? Didn't you conclude you were dreaming because your hands were different?

well, what I meant by "it failed" is that it looked different then when I do a reality check in real life. So basically the RC worked, I guess. I guess I should have worded it differently.

In other words: My hands looked different in my dream, and my dream self goes "omg I'm dreaming!" but I didn't say it (as in my SC) it was just my dream character. I didn't know myself I was lucid. This is the third time it's happened and I don't know what to do about it. I can't explain it. Ugh:/

So basically you dreamed that you are lucid...It happened to me few times...The crucial part of doing RC's is not just doing them, it's to raise your awareness while you do them and become aware of your surroundings.

I get what you're saying now. Something like that's happened to me before, and I consider it to be a low level of lucidity. I didn't fully realize I was dreaming, as though I was dreaming that I was having a lucid dream. But it was still something more than a regular dream, with more vividness and awareness, so I counted it to be a lucid dream.

I think that if, during reality checks, I made a point of trying to remember my normal life and making sure it matches up, along with doing a history check, the problem would be fixed, since most of my dreams take place somewhere other than in my real life. I recently had a false awakening in which I did what were sort of reality checks, considered I might be dreaming like 10 times before concluding I wasn't. I'm sure that if I had just remembered back to what my real life is usually like, I would have realized that my furniture was all misplaced and concluded I was dreaming. But doing a history check and remembering what your life is supposed to be like during every reality check seems too inconvenient.