Maybe you could use this to tip you off for a lucid dream. As you walk around all day, look for things that are out of place, and question if this is really what your school, house, ect look like.

I think this is pretty common, but it doesn't always have to happen. I have had dreams that were recreations of real places, so real I was amazed I could remember such detail.

When you are in the distorted places, do you just somehow know that it is supposed to be your school, even though it doesn't look like it? How do you know what the place is supposed to be? Is there just one or two things out of place, or is the whole place totally messed up?