Alright, so, I'd like to start off by saying that until recently when I started trying to improve, my dream recall has always been HORRIBLE. Like, so bad that I honestly wouldn't be all that surprised if it turned out half the dreams I've ever had were lucid and I just didn't remember them happening.
So, now that that's out of the way... I had this kind of weird dream last night that I can't really tell if I was lucid or not, but it seems like it might have been because of the way it was kind of fragmented up by what I'm pretty sure were FA's, (like, the dream would be suddenly interrupted by a FA, and I would somehow just know that SOMETHING was up, and then suddenly the dream would resume, and then rinse and repeat for the rest of the night) and also because of the way I remember the dream.
It was kind of like... The memories of the dream at least felt like they were being formed consciously and as stuff happened, and/or I woke up and just kind of already had the memories, as opposed to waking up and being like, "Oh hey I can kinda remember that dream I was just having" and then transferring it to my conscious memory. (My sincere apologies if that made absolutely no sense whatsoever.)
I mean, I don't really remember being acutely aware of the fact that I was dreaming at any point other than the FA's, but I recall being at least somewhat conscious through all of what I can remember...
So, in conclusion: I can't tell if that was/counts as a lucid dream, so could someone give me some kind of answer, please?
Bonus question: I've heard that you should do RC's whenever something unusual happens, or just whenever you remember to do it just so that you get in the habit and are more likely to do it without conscious thought. However, I've also heard that you should ONLY do an RC with good reason and that it's bad (for some reason unknown to me) to either form a mindless habit of checking whenever or to just do it due to said habit... Which one is true?