Trouble with DILD

First post :) anyway, for two days I have been practicing ADA along with lots of nose plugs while questioning if I am dreaming (I haven't just been mindlessly doing RC's)

Before I go over the problem I would like to say I have just recently rewatched inception and it sort of transfers into my dream.

I won't go into much detail about the dream but I am with a group of people in a small Wild West style village, out of one of the saloon doors, I man comes out with a gun and starts firing at us. For some reason I have a grappling hook like off 'Just Cause 2' and I grapple hook onto a nearby balcony, this is the interesting bit, I then question if I am dreaming and then do a nose plug and air passes through my nose, I then immediately realise I am dreaming but don't become lucid and instead I 'wake up' in a suburb area (in the dream).

So what I'm really asking is why didn't the RC make me become lucid? Do 'I' need to consciously do the RC or can I just let my dream character do it.

Thanks :)

The way most people do RCs is a way to make sure you are dreaming, not to make you become lucid so that must be why?

So then how do I become lucid after I have done an RC?

Eh you really don't, you become lucid either while performing it or before. As you said, you aren't doing mindlessly. The question here would be well... what exactly you ask yourself.
I know that "am I dreaming?" seems like a good one, but that is too easy to answer since it can either go "No... yes..." withour further thinking.
Have you tried "Where is my real body right now?" that not only makes you question what the hell it means "real body" but also whether or not it is right now in bed or your current location, and would be easier to become lucid from that I believe?

Thanks for the insight :) I have been trying more RC 's so I have a backup and I have been asking some more detailed questions like "how did I get here?". I'm feeling pretty confident so hopefully tonight will be the night :D