hello Bmac, welcome to the forum. I was going to move your post into the big remembering dreams topic … but you went on to talk about RCs too 
Here is the link to the BIG remembering dreams topic part V - there is also a Reality Check topic in pathways 
in two possible ways … you either do a reality check whenever you come across something that you see in your dreams a lot. Then with doing it when you are awake, when you dream of it you will do a RC then too and become lucid 
or you do RC so often (every half hour or hour) that you will do a RC in your dream too. (I prefer the first method)
everytime you talk to a girl you do a RC? 