Training yourself to remember dreams by writing them down before they fade away is paramount, it's not enough to just think about them - they still somehow fade away along with your thoughts about them. Then read what you wrote before going to sleep again.

If you want to achieve lucid dreaming consistently you also have to develop a habit of doing reality checks. The most effective one is to pinch your nose and try to breath through it, in your dreams it will almost always work and the surprise is major.

Lucid dreaming even works for people with aphantasia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia>.

Are there any more subtle reality checks so people in the real world don’t think I’m insane trying to breathe through my closed nose all day?