Okay so I had quite nice recall tonight, and here is how one of the dreams went (don't worry, it's short.)

I was in my home bathroom doing whatever, then I looked out the window and saw two of my friends playing catch in a backyard. Out of the window though I saw three backyards only, that's it, just backyards, but that wasn't what I thought was weird. I couldn't recognize the backyard they were in. After a few seconds of thinking of how to get to it, I decided it wasn't real, and did a reality check, the nose plug. And yep, I breathed all right, this was the first time I completed a reality check in a dream. After that I ran outside and played frisbee with the two people in front of my house. I wasn't lucid though, and I think later that kind of hit me. I felt that the dream was foggy and hazy, so I tried a technique I remembered, looking at your hands. When I raised them in front of my face something snapped, something undescribable happened, they changed, whether it was vividness or color or looks. But I got a weird feeling in the dream and I think the surroundings changed a bit too. I don't know exactly what happened still because I woke up right after.

So I really feel there was a bit of awareness inside that dream, but it was definitely not lucid, when I think about the lucid I have had. I don't really know if I was questioning whether it was a dream or not during the reality check, and that may be the problem, but does anyone else have insight?