Ok, here's one that has probably been answered at some point on here, but I cannot find the answer to. Here's why i ask...

Before making the discovery of this site and becoming more educated about lucid dreaming, I had, every so often, dreams in which I would become conscious and realize I was dreaming, and then wake myself up. This would happen maybe 1 night a week at the most, and this was of course before I realized the potential that these things held...So now that I am trying to have them, they are totally gone. I am still remembering my dreams...sometimes 4 to 5 in one night, but I just cant become lucid. So here's my question...

I know that to attempt to become lucid you are supposed to do a reality test, but in my dreams I am, not to my knowledge in control of myself, which makes that impossible. I guess my question is how can I do a reality test if I dont know I am in a dream? I think I have confused myself Any ideas?

Allen