The way I understand use of a dreamsign is that when you see it in waking life you perform a RC, then when you are in a dream and you see the sign hopefully you will do the same there to initiate a question like "Am I dreaming?" to trigger mindfulness within the dream.

I have a dream sign that used to be in almost all of my natural lucids as a child and she showed up in two consecutive dreams last night which tells me maybe she never went and that I stopped being able to recognize her as my dream recall slipped away into my teenage years.

My question is: Having never existed in my waking life experience, how can I use my Lady In The Red Dress (That is what I call her, I never asked her for her name and doubt I would get an honest answer anyway) to achieve reliable lucidity if she begins appearing in all of my dreams again?

I was really excited to write it down when I realised it was her and remembering that makes me feel like good things can start happening in my life again.