Thanks sparky42 for posting this! I’m in a VERY similar boat. Recently I’ve found myself noticing how out of the ordinary things are in my dreams but instead of taking control I slip into what I would call at “third person” state where I am outside of my dream body and from a distance I encourage my self…“Come ON! This is obviously a dream!” yet I watch myself standing there in a amazement of what’s happening.
The other night I managed to take a moment of accidental flight and control it…but I wasn’t able to gain full awareness. Feels like I’m making progress though!
One other side note is that I’m starting to notice incomplete environments. If I look around at the scenery I notice parts of it are missing. What’s up with that?!? My goal is to turn those moments into RCs…assuming I can remember to do so. This is becoming a regular thing.
I look forward to working on the suggestions in this post and I’m going to start reading through the Dream Control Training Course so we’ll see what happens.
It’s nice to know other people are having similar experiences. Thanks again for sharing 
Rob