fairly new!

Hi everyone. Im saying hello since ive just been through months with an unactivated account but now its fixed. I am still fairly new to the whole lucid dream topic though I have been through vast quantities of information to answer my barrage of questions but I still have some that have yet to be answered.

I keep a dream journal, which has seen good service a few months ago and now im giving my goal of inducing a lucid dream my fullest now. I do reality checks as much as I can remember to and dont have much trouble remembering dreams but I dont seem to have any awareness when im in a dream. I act totally on instinct within a dream and dont have the mental awareness to consider that i might be in a dream or spontaneously or by will remember to reality check. I have searched for such knowledge through tutorials and posts but to no avail. Is there any way to train myself out of this lack of awareness.