i had been going through my dream journal and realized that most if not all of my lucid dreams began with me just realizing that im dreaming, without questioning it or doing an RC. It would just hit me that im dreaming and i would exclaim "Im dreaming!". i would then do RC's just to increase awareness of the dream.
its quite strange cause i do reality checks many times throughout the day and ask myself if im dreaming but it never seems that thats the way i become lucid.

Any of you guys get lucid this way?