This is a good sign, it means you're getting there. Just keep doing RC's throughout the day

Just as you say, doing RC's in waking life has - so far - only made me dream about being lucid, but there might be a quicker way: Every time I do a RC (about every 5-15 minutes) I tell myself to make sure that I'm truly lucid (and not just dreaming that I'm being lucid).
This will not only trick our brain to do a RC in a dream, it will make the dream-us question its own lucidity, which should eventually - but quicker than just ordinary RC's (I hope ) - make us lucid for real.

I haven't gotten a LD from this yet, but I'm making progress