Just wanted to introduce myself and ask a couple questions.

I discovered lucid dreaming about a month ago and have been working on dream recall and heightening my awareness. I have also been doing periodic reality checks. Before I started, I was lucky to remember 1 dream a month. In the beginning I was writing down 3-4 dreams per night, but now it has leveled out at around 2. Does this sound normal?

Regarding reality checks, how do I need to be ending them? Do I need to conclusively end by saying something like "since I can't breathe through my nose when I plug it, I must not be dreaming."?