I've had a good number of LDs, and throughout my practices I've realized something about what I do after after becoming lucid. What happens next usually depends on how aware I am in that particular dream. This isn't for all my lucids, but probably a good chunk of them.

In the first scenario, I become lucid, but I'm only semi-lucid. In other words, I'm not fully realizing the extent of being in a dream; I'd guess I'm around 50% aware compared to waking life. I say that I'm dreaming and am pretty conscious, but I don't remember the "need" to do an RC; I don't end up doing one and I simply go right into dream activities.

The next scenario involves me going lucid and being more aware, having about 80%+ of my awareness in waking life. Again, I don't do an RC because even though I'm much more conscious and should be telling myself to do one, I don't even think about doing one. It's as if I'm 100% certain that I'm dreaming right off the hop, even though I should have the clarity of mind to check and "make sure".

In both scenarios, I know that I'm dreaming but I don't think to do RCs in order to confirm this. When I'm in between the two scenarios in terms of awareness, though, that's when I often feel like I have to check.

Does anyone else experience something like this? I think it's rather interesting.