Hi everyone!
I'm very excited to start learning how to lucid dream!
I was just wondering how I will know when I am in a dream? I have looked into signs and it's only when I wake up and remember the little things in a dream that I think "why didn't I realise I was dreaming? It's so obvious!".

I often wake during the night and see things like figures, spiders and objects in my bedroom change into something else! Especially posters. I seem to just stare at whatever I see until I'm fully awake and whatever it was disappears or changes back into whatever the object was. Is this the dream state for lucid dreaming? I'm not aware that I am dreaming and can sometimes get scared. I know I'm in bed and I know I'm in my room yet I can't seem to realise I'm dreaming.

Does anyone have any advice?

I can remember most dreams and I find that it's everytime I say to myself that I will remember as I'm dropping off to sleep.

Thanks!