A few years back I had this one dream and came across some kind of spring/lake and in then in the middle of it I became aware of dreaming and started jumping about to test the control of my dream, soon later I lost control of my dream and ended up getting attacked my some black lake monster before I woke up.

I had this other dream where I was wondering around, not aware I was dreaming, then I entered this public bathroom and saw my friend's sister in there and out of no where I became aware of my dreams. I turned the my friend's sister and said "I'm dreaming" and she kind of smirked at me as if she knew all along, I didn't do any reality checks, I just realised with no hints or anything.

Next I started summoning characters I wanted to have in my dream, I'd summoned about 4 or so and summoned another but it didn't appear how I wanted it and I lost control of my dream and forgot I was dreaming just like that.

Another time this happened a few weeks before this, I was dreaming and I exited a shop or something and just suddenly realised I was dreaming with no real evidence other than just the realisation of it and shortly after I lost control of my dream and forgot I was dreaming.

I think I should've done reality checks, which I didn't know about then, but I do now and I want to have more lucid dreams so I can have fun with it instead of dreaming of random crap that's probably not that exciting or is just extremely scary or weird.