Thread: Was this me recognizing dream signs or just part of the dream?

So I'm not as committed to LDing as I was in the past. I'm trying to get back into it and since I had a 1.5 year haitus, I'm starting from scratch pretty much.

So it's been a week since I started again and I'm just starting with trying to get dream recall back. In the past when I got more sleep, I remembered on average 3-4 dreams a night. However, those are days when I was in high school and my sleep amount was constant throughout the week. College and vacations, my sleep time is never the same (although I do get enough of it still) and I'm remembering 1-2 a night.

Anyway, so it's just been a week and I decided last night would be the night that I would start to tell myself before I go to bed to remember my dreams and to do reality checks.

So in the dream, I was being driven back to college from Thanksgiving Break. It is a 5 hour drive and my dad always takes me but since this was a dream, it didn't happen like that. My mother who cannot take the 5 hour ride w/out like 5 stops along the way drove me. So we got there from our home in 1-2 hours and I identified this as odd in the dream saying it normally takes 5 hours. But then shrugged it off as nothing. Then she took a wrong turn and we had to find a way to turn around which we did. Going back the right direction we stopped at a friend's (I'll call him Matt b/c that is his name) house. He had a pull up bar attached to the sides of a wall which I again verbally acknowledged as odd b/c my other friend from back home (Justin) has this bar in his house and it shouldn't be here. But then again, seconds later I thought nothing less of it and moved on.

So were those just random happenings in the dream or was I actually close there to achieving lucidity? Again, I don't expect to reach that point for a while but I was just curious about this.