Kind of. Except that few people actually get lucid from reality checks themselves. the reality checks are just a tool. The main thing is that you become more aware, and start to question reality. Think of the reality checks as opportunities to question reality, and habit forming, so that you get into the habit of seriously questioning whether you could be dreaming right now. Think about it seriously for a moment. Is this a dream? How would you know? Do you remember how you got to where you are? If you expect to be able to do something that would be impossible during waking life, can you actually do it - in dreams if you expect to be able to be able to push your thumb through your hand, and you really believe you can, in dreams you will be able to do it, whereas in waking life no matter how much you expect to do that, you won't. It's not the pushing of the thumb through the palm that makes you lucid, it's actually the expectations and the questioning of reality. Most of us just assume we are awake all the time, and so then we do not recognize dreams. If you change that mindset and start expecting that you are dreaming and regularly checking whether you are, ultimately this changed mindset will seep into dreams, and you will at some point question reality when dreaming. Does that make sense?