Sometimes the dream tells you to become lucid

Last night I dreamt that I was working in a call center. I went elsewhere, then go back to the call center, except everything looks different and I can't find my way anywhere. I think to myself, "A building's floor plan changing on its own like that is a good dream sign. I need to remember that the next time I have a dream." Then I realize I am dreaming! I can't change my dreamscape much, but I can fly. I start to feel myself waking up, but then I remember someone here saying to focus on sensations in a dream to keep myself anchored in the experience. So I feel the tips of my fingers. It prolongs the dream a little bit, but I eventually wake up.

Does this happen to others, where you discover a certain type of dream sign in-dream, then use it to become lucid?

My dreams have yet to tell me to become lucid…. :lol: but,

In terms of dream signs, Yes! I’ve RC’ed in waking life mainly to what I would classify as “oddities” (which I categorize as including virtually anything, from a flicker of light, to a creaking door), as well as mundane, everyday things (like entering a certain room). The sequence was that in a dream my memory would be sparked upon encountering the thing, leading to a suspicion of the dream state. The rest was left up to my decision in that moment to do a RC and amplify my lucidity. This would only happen though, if I had prepared myself to notice those things in waking life, as well as keeping up other daytime work (to both remember my dreams, and to build confident intention that I would notice these things in dreams).

So yes, I would often use these things to become lucid, either because they have a good chance of appearing in a dream, or by virtue of incubation.

Hi one time i was dreaming in a familiar location so i saw a workshop but in real life a shop was there so i sad to myself : this only happen in dreams and becomed lucid.

I was in a fender bender with a guy on a forest road, he didn't want to give up his insurance information at first and said "Why does it matter? You're going to be lucid in a few minutes anyways."

And that's how I realized it was all a dream XD