Whoa, your avatar is freaky.

Anyways, welcome to Dreamviews!
I'm like you; I'm not so much interested in speaking with my subconscious as flying and doing awesome stuff in my lucids. And most of my lucids take place around my house or at my school, but they can occur anywhere. A good and quick RC is to plug your nose and see if you can breathe through it. It's convenient because if the area is dark, you still know if it fails because you don't need your vision to perform it. And it's never failed for me.

I haven't been able to WILD for quite some time now; I'll definitely give the "second sight" technique a shot.