I’ve been lazy with my dream journaling lately, but I’m trying to get back into the habit to build my recall back up. In one dream last night, I thought, “I need to write this down later so my dream recall improves.”
I wasn’t lucid. Journaling daily activities to improve dream recall seemed perfectly rational to my dreaming brain, so I didn’t question it. 
I had a (non-lucid) dream a couple months ago where I was playing a video game, but the game suddenly got weird. I didn’t want to play it anymore, so I decided to wake up. No realization I was dreaming, just “I’m going to wake up now” (followed by a false awakening I didn’t catch).
Anyone else have stories to share of dreams where they kind of unconsciously knew they were dreaming yet it didn’t click?