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Random reality tests (nose pinching & breathing as described above) through the day works as you might randomly do it in the dream, but what I find works better is finding patterns in your dreams where something isn't right, and do tests against that while awake.
E.g
It can be anything though, maybe you drive your car a lot in your dreams so every time you get into your car you do a check.
You can find the patterns more easily by increasing your dream recall which can be done by keeping a dream journal.
When I was doing frequent checks and keeping a journal, at my peak, I was having lucid dreams 3-4 nights a week, and each night I'd have 3-4 lucid dreams. I've stopped journaling, and only really do reality checks if something really weird happens nowadays, and I'm still lucid dreaming 1-2 times a month now. The length of my lucid dreams are much shorter now as well though.
In one of my first lucid dreams, I was hanging out with a bunch of friends and noticed that they were a hodgepodge of people I knew, but who wouldn't know each other. And suddenly I realized, "this is a dream".
I proceeded to walk out onto the balcony and fly away... because flying was absolutely the first thing I wanted to try. Flew around, checked out some different planets, and then subtly slipped back into dreaming, losing control once again.
Lucid dreaming happens to me occasionally and I love it every time. And I always choose to fly lol, I can't help myself
Flying is pretty awesome. I've never even considered leaving earth, I'll have to try that sometime it I can remember.
I cannot read in dreams or make numbers work. But the funniest way my mind told me I was dreaming was stairs, outdoor stairway. I was trying to go down the stairs but kept ending up at the top again. So I took them 2 at a time, then 3 at a time, then jumped halfway down, then jumped top to bottom and only THEN realized I was dreaming.