So I started trying to get into lucid dreaming about two months ago. I lasted about a month, and after no results, I gave up and went back into a non-aware lifestyle. The weird thing is that I've been having lucid dreams recently. A week and a half-ish ago I had a dream where I got lucid and then I instantly woke myself up.
4 days ago, I had a dream where I was brushing my teeth in my house and then I became lucid and woke myself up from excitement after 5 or so minutes of practicing dream control.
I just woke up from a dream where I became lucid and then walked around talking to DCs and practicing dream control for a solid 20 minutes.
My point is that I am having lucid dreams recently more frequently, and they are lasting longer. I am not doing a single thing to induce them.
I noticed a couple of things. The first thing is that whenever I become lucid, it's not that I notice something, it's because an intrusive thought just hits me like a sack of bricks and says "I'm dreaming." I'm not doing MILD so this is sort of unexplained. I am completely unaware of my surroundings and then once this occurs I suddenly become hyper-aware.
The second thing that I noticed is that DCs really don't seem to care. At all. They talk to me and we have legitimate conversations. If I bring up the fact that I'm dreaming and that I know I am, they aren't hostile. They don't even really react. They just acknowledge that fact and move on.
One dream character that I talked to, when asked how he was able to make the voices of my friends say whatever he wanted them too despite never hearing that sentence be said by them before, he casually stated that it was because the machine that controlled this dream mixed the words together. For the record, I doubt there's a dream machine. He was likely referring to my subconscious or he could have been created by me, and thus reacted to my expectations.
I just don't.... get it. Why is this happening? I think my subconscious might be essentially telling me. After all, I'm sure not the one who is aware. It's just really strange and judging from the docility of my DCs, the idea that my subconscious is doing this seems fairly likely.
I am curious as to what is going on. In all honestly, I just want reassurance that I will continue having lucid dreams. I don't expect anyone to reply with a concrete answer, but if you could give your opinion that would be nice.