One very powerful part of lucid dreaming is to imagine waking life as a kind of dream - and this makes sense since, when you think about it, waking life actually is a kind of dream, since our perceived reality is constructed in the exactly same way as dreams.
Think about hallucinations, for example - they occur because your brain for some reason is having a problem to construct an accurate model of the world, and if you actually experienced the world itself directly then you would never ever hallucinate, since hallucinations don't actually exist in physical space - so waking life is all internally in our minds, even though the sensory input of course is real.
This is pretty exciting and fascinating, and if you think of waking life this way then your surroundings will usually feel more dreamlike.
So have you ever experienced a feeling like this for waking life?
Sometimes I get into this curious state, when I observe things around me and feel like they are dream objects, and this also makes it easier to practice lucid living, since this feeling brings you closer to the feeling of being in a dream.