Quick context: I've always been interested in lucid dreaming but the farthest I've gotten are very vivid dreams and being half-aware, but never lucid. The dreams I've recalled most of my life are unrelated to real life. Traveling in train stations and airports of which the layout and way it works doesn't make sense but does in dream, being friends with people I don't know, having a third perspective on someone else, places that don't exist etc. Based on this my biggest dreamsign would be context then, according to the book.
From what I understand we're supposed to train ourselves to be able to recognise that this doesn't make sense, and thus we're dreaming. But how does one do that when your dreamself is almost constantly convinced that this is how it's always been or finds it normal so he/I doesn't question it? A lot of times I'm busy within the dream (talking, hurrying, "on a mission") which stops me from thinking of doing a reality check as well.
In the past I've tried telling myself in the waking world that I'm always supposed to be in my room and how my day would go, so if I am anywhere else I should be dreaming. But that hasn't worked, although I'm gonna try again. I wonder if it has to do with my personality which causes me to not think too deeply or dismiss odd things within the dream or simply not enough effort being put in.
Anyone that has dealt with similar issues? Anyone with advice?