Originally posted by Mark75
Yeah I know what you mean. Through my several months of trying I've become lucid three times. Funny thing is, I never did a single reality check. I just kinda \"knew\".
Some of mine are like that, too, but I frequently become lucid because I notice something out of place or that doesn't make sense, and I somehow become concious of that. I don't know why I would randomly do that when most of the time I simply accept everything that happens in dreams as "normal" even if it's not. The fact that the vast majority of my unintentional lucid dreams are false awakenings, though, suggests to me that probably when I think I'm really awake I don't expect to see anything odd, which increases the chance that a false awakening will become lucid for me. Sort of as if I subconsiously perform a reality check without realizing it.

My last lucid dream I had before discovering this web site (which happened about a month or two ago) was unusual, though, because at the very moment I "woke up" in a false awakening I felt a strange sensation that somehow made me instantly aware that it was a dream. I don't remember the sensation well and it was hard to describe. I never had a lucid dream that way before. It was also strange because even though I was lucid the whole (one or two-minute long) dream, I didn't even notice anything unusual about a door in my room that lead to the outside that doesn't even exist in real life. I even went out the door and walked down a road that doesn't exist in real life without noticing, even though I still knew it was a dream. I guess I wasn't completely lucid that time.