Thanks for the welcome.

Stop RCing? Hadn't thought of that. I'm always so thorough though. I look at my hands, check the familiarity of my surroundings, remember what I was doing earlier, and look for anything impossible or illogical. I even remember looking at my hands in a non-lucid. They looked very strange and I should have realized I was dreaming but something didn't click for some reason. But stopping for a while sounds good for the reasons you all said.

I also didn't think of dream signs as simply feelings or themes. I always thought of them as just illogical or strange events like flying books. Good advice.