I'm new here~ I'm excited and trying to be on my way to lucid dreams!
I just had to ask about something that keeps happening.
I'm familiar with dream signs and reality checks, but it's happened twice already where I had a FAKE dream sign:
For example, last night. I dreamed of an endless shallow pool filled with endless water. Aside from the fact I know this is impossible, I stopped, and remembered a dream I had had before with this same exact setting. In the dream, I said: "Aha! This must be a dream sign!"
I didn't succeed in actually becoming lucid, but I figured out I was dreaming. This has happened before, with a very similar situation to the one described above, only with a certain friend of mine holding a toy train.


Only, here's the catch: Those things aren't actually dream signs, because I don't recall ever dreaming about them before. I always acknowledge the fact I'm dreaming but can't get higher? Is it because the dream signs are fake..?