When you have no logical reason to believe you are dreaming. There was **no** Reality Check done or anything first to make sure you weren't wake. No technique done before. It feels almost like a flash of insight or a feeling, like it. Like you sense you are dreaming without really sensing it. Like it's second nature, but more like 3rd nature?

I don't really know how to explain it, but lately, thinking back, the RCs and other techniques happened AFTER this flash of insight. And many times I don't think i really did any RCs....they were more like playing within the dream after becoming lucid because i couldn't think of anything else to do.

What is this called, does it have a name?
Anyone else experience this?