I'll go ahead and share two stories, skip the first one if you don't want to read too much, the second one gives a better idea of what I mean.

Dream 1:

A while ago I had a dream where I was looking out a window in my house, and saw friends playing in a backyard. I didn't know how to get there because I didn't recognize the backyard. After a while of just staring it, for the first time ever in my dreams I did a reality check that worked. But it didn't make me lucid. It made me go into this fake lucidity that some call "semi-lucidity," where I would run around and do completely random things. This time I went out of my house and those friends were there, we played catch a bit, then I started trying to fly, and failed, then it ended. The outdoors portion of this dream was covered in a thick white fog.

Dream 2:

This happened this week. There were two small fragmented dreams I can remember that involved me getting the idea that I was aware, I took this awareness and decided to walk off, away from the direction that the stories in my dreams were going, I don't remember what happened after I walked off in them, but I think they ended pretty quickly afterwards. Then in one of the later dreams in the night, I thought that I was lucid, so I was running down a long road in my neighborhood (yes, it's a recurring environment) at night, doing random things again, like shooting a fireball at a car, which didn't work. After that failure I decided to force push it, and it went flying as I continued down the road. I think somewhere in it I attempted to fly, which again didn't work. By the time I got to the end of the road I woke up.

The biggest problem in all these types of scenarios which frequently occur, is the thought of dreaming never comes into my mind. I will tell myself I am lucid, not lucid dreaming. I have never once said, "this isn't real," or, "I'm dreaming."