Hey! Thanks for reading

To answer your question, I'm not totally sure how I knew...it was just one of those things "I just knew". You know? One moment I was in a regular dream and the next, I became lucid. As I said, I did not have to perform any reality checks. I guess I could explain it as a sort of feeling, like all of a sudden I had a feeling that there were no consequences and I was free. So I quickly deduced that I was inside a dream and thus began my experience