I know EXACTLY how you feel. It's very annoying isn't it? How you just keep getting so much closer to lucidity, but not enough - you still believe all your dreams and never think that they could be fake!

However, the controller may have changed your ways of thinking, so it can't be that bad - don't put yourself down. You might have been dreaming about what it's like to get sucked into a videogame, you might play them a lot to understand that already.

I feel that I'm in the same situation as you - not being able to recognise (that it's) a dream when you are experiencing one. What I'm doing is having chocolate. (I know that probably won't help neither of us...) Yeah, nah what I'm doing is questioning myself constantly in the waking world. Like whenever I'm near my dream signs or strange/new situations, I question myself whether it's a dream or not. I do a reality check too. I'm slowly getting there...

Hope that helps. What do you mean by, "I was slightly intoxicated"? You had alcohol?