Hey, welcome to Dreamviews
Maybe it's just me, but your explanation was a bit confusing.

In the first part, you mean you weren't sure whether it was a lucid dream or just a semi-conscious daydream?
Do you mean you were dreaming about becoming lucid inside a dream... without realizing that the whole thing actually WAS a lucid dream?
I'm not sure I know what to tell you... when the logic center of your brain turns on in the dream, you just know that you're dreaming. I think I might have had dreams that were actually about dreams and LDs, but somehow it just didn't click and I didn't actually become lucid.
Hopefully when you get in the habit of doing reality checks and seriously questioning your surroundings, it will remind you in the dream to question things, and that will suddenly make you realize it's a dream. After that, you can stabilize it by doing reality checks, spinning, or touching things in the dream. Stimulate your senses in the dream world, and that will hopefully make things more vivid and give you more control and help you stay lucid longer.
When you do that reality check, you're supposed to plug your nose and try to breathe through it.
You're right about recall, it gets a lot harder if you put off recording your dreams. That's one of the most important things you should do.
You could also try picking out different things, people, or places that commonly appear in your dreams, and train yourself to do a reality check whenever you see them in real life.
I hope some of this helps.

Good luck!
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