A couple nights ago I had both a finger-palm and a nose-pinch fail, but I still became like half lucid - enough to understand that I wasn't in waking reality, though without full lucid awareness. Things were getting really weird - I was walking along a sidewalk and I kept getting on these weird ramp things that rapidly took me way up high on the walls of the buildings, to dangerous heights very quickly. I knew something was weird and did both RC's - but press as I might my finger wouldn't go through, and air somehow kept 'leaking' into my lungs. I failed to gain lucidity - my dreaming mind came up with excuses, like I must have a slight cold so the nose-pinch won't work (!?)

But I did reach a level of semi-lucidity, where I understood that there is no real danger, and that this isn't exactly normal waking reality, so I just jumped down off the ridiculously high level and re-appeared instantly on the sidewalk again, walking as I was before. Need to get back to the day practice and constant state testing to bring awareness back up.