^^ It would be interesting to do a thorough study of my DJ, but I'd guess most of my LDs involved already being already mostly sure I was dreaming, and no RC was involved, or it was just a formality. Maybe 3/4. A small handful were "RC reflex", (like, "WTF!? RC <by reflex>! Oh!") with no prior hunch. I don't think I've ever had a "random RC" LD with no prior "hunch" or "WTF!?" moment. The rest are sort of in-between: maybe 75% sure I'm dreaming, but I teeter there on the edge of disbelief for a while, off-balance, unsure, and in those cases the RC help me to cement lucidity in those cases. Those are the times were performing in-dream "critical reflection" is all but impossible since my mind is already quite a-twitter with conflicting "realities" and is desperately searching for close, calm harbor, fast! Maybe long-term meditation would help eliminate these "adrift in the ocean of WTF-is-my-state?" cases.

My day work these days is basically like a long, continuous game of "Hot or not?" but for dreaming . To produce that "dream?" hunch in the dream state.