I keep getting dream signs that seem aimed directly at making me lucid and that I have not asked to see. eg clock faces or text directly in front of my dream eyes with the numbers or letters unreadable. Another is my face in a mirror or eyes open wide and staring at me.
That sounds a lot like what I call my “stress dreams”. Sure, I can LD almost any time I want to but it’s fun to just watch them too like TV shows. My stress dreams are usually me chasing a stolen bike and I keep missing it; the thieves just out of reach. Try and think of what is happening in your waking life that might be influencing the kind of dreams you just wrote about. My “thief” dreams or unable to find something or help someone usually go along with problems in my waking hours. Once you know the source of the dreams, just ignore them or change something in your waking hours.
To me, it sounds like your SC is beginning to ‘get the message’ that you wish to become lucid.
I’d take it as a good sign! 