This mourning, I had a long vivid dream. It was probally the longest dream I have remembered in ages. It was like it lasted hours but the problem is during the dream I checked the time and it read a right time 11:37 so the reality check should have failed but it didn’t? The night before I had a dream where me and a friend were trying to lucid dream and I had a fake Lucid Dream. How close can I be and yet so far!!
Unfortunately, failing RCs often happen. But you need to check the time for two or three times if you want to be almost sure that it will work. If you use this RC irl, don’t just rapidly check the hour and say “oh ok see I’m not dreaming”, but meticulously check the hour several times before you’re absolutely sure you’re awake. The more accurate you do this, the bigger the chance that you’ll become lucid if you remember to do the RC in your dreams.
But still, the fact that you were so close is a very good sign
Good luck!