Yeah, I usually just get to the "Wait...Oh snap! That's a dream sign! Okay, I'm dreaming." Which is something I never say in real life. But I don't fully believe it, so it's just like, I acknowledge I'm dreaming and then... forget.
The reason I said the dream signs were fake is because I have never seen or thought of, let alone dreamed about those things before. In the dream, I'm essentially having fake memories.

The one dream in particular, about the endless pool: I really was almost there. At 2 points in the dream, I said "I'm dreaming". I had forgotten that until today! And the first time I actually had changed something, I think. I was in the back of a car, it was going along some wicked bumps, and I made the outside of the car get all scary. Ooooh. I am very excited