Only recently i've gotten back into lucid dreaming, when I had one on Saturday morning, then one this morning. I looked in a box, and thought this is a dream, then I looked at my hands. On my right, the thumb, index, forefinger and pinky were missing the sections between the tip of the finger (nail), and the knuckles. I showed this to my friend, and he leapt back in shock - I thought this was quite funny. Then I looked back at my hand, and one of them had grown back. Anyway, later in the dream, I was still keeping the dream stable (touching stuff), and then I wasn't sure I was still lucid. I was trying to make the time in the dream much longer than time when awake. I forgot about saying stuff/shouting to make stuff happen, and all I did was think stuff, trying to make it happen. Whats the best way to check that your still lucid?

Another thing, I'm not sure if the place changed so fast that I did not notice, but I tried spinning, and nothing happened. Or is it better to think/say where you want to go?