Quote Originally Posted by zoth00 View Post
Control is most easy when you're not lucid: since you aren't aware that it's a dream or that the laws of physics exist, you just follow through and exercise control without any problems (in most dreams). But don't convince yourself that control needs to be different in your lucid dreams! I'm sure that the attention that you've been giving to it will make things just as easy

Like you said, reality checks are a great help, but I'd say go ahead and dig deep into the questioning of your state. You want to take your time to see if you're lucid, to prevent any chances that something in the dream distracts you. This is sadly only a matter of practice, so the work is on you. But at the same time, you will be able to recall this same issue that you've related and think about your intention. Visualize before going to bed (and several times a day if possible as well) your intent of becoming lucid, of stopping what you're doing and ask yourself what are you doing there, why, how, when. You seem to have an excellent control so once you solve the problem of being more self-aware, the lucid dreams will start to appear regularly. Good luck!
Thanks for the advice.

I definitely need to work on not getting distracted after I become lucid, I've had quite a few dreams where I'd get distracted and forget I'm dreaming soon after figuring it out in the first place. In one dream I became lucid right at the start and left the area I was in to look around but right afterward everyone in the dream started speaking korean and I was seeing subtitles at the bottom of my field of view. o.o It threw me for a loop and I completely forgot I was dreaming again. It seems like every time I become lucid my dream goes into overdrive trying to distract me, in the dream I mentioned in the first post things were going nuts all around me like everything in the world was trying to get my attention at once.

Thanks for that list too, I've already started using reading/time checking one.