Over the past two nights I have had three dreams where I did the infamous "breath through your nose" reality check only to think in my dream that there is something wrong with my nose (a.k.a. that I'm not pinching my nose hard enough, etc.) I seem to use "logic" to dismiss it. It is somewhat annoying, because had I believed that I was in a dream I would have had 3 lucids in two nights! My dreams are already very vivid, in one dream I remember saying, "I can't be dreaming, because everything is too real." Therefore, I didn't actually accept the fact that I was dreaming and eventually went back into the dreamscape.

Has anybody had a similar experience? Does anybody have a creative idea as to how I can remedy this and know that I'm dreaming and actually trust that I am pinching my nose tight enough and I can breath through my nose, because I'm asleep in my bed?

Also, during one of those failed Lucid's I did a backup RC where I tried to make my finger go through my hand, but it didn't. Maybe it's because I "knew" that it wouldn't because I thought I was in real life.

Does anybody have any suggestions?