Hand method

Always worked for me when I tried, classic technique :smile:

Yes, I know it’s old. But it’s good for the newbies. And for me. it worked. :content:

Never heard of this one before…I’ll try it out tonight. :smile:

Yes do and please report back how it worked for you. :smile:

Congrats :wink:

It didn’t work for me last night though. I was too tired to concentrate on my hands for a long time, but I’ll try harder tonight :cool:

Thanks imwhoiam! :happy:

I hope it works for you aswell. :hugs:

Actually it didn’t work for me last night either. But I’ve only been trying it for two nights though… Better luck next time, maybe :wink:

Do it before falling asleep and if you happen to wake up at night, do it again. That’s how it worked for me.

Good luck! :smile:

This is an excellent technique. I used it successfully many times when I first tried to master LDing. Looking at your hands while in a lucid dream can also stabilize your dream.

Tip: Try painting just one of your fingernails a bright color or wear an eye catching ring on a odd finger during the day. That will make you more aware of your hands.

Another similar RC that works well would be looking at one’s feet (toes especially, like fingers the number can be way off).

This foot RC would be great for those who don’t wear shoes around the house or wear open-toed shoes often.

hmm i’ll try this method see if it works :happy:

It worked, it worked :yay:
I combined it with WBTB, and some autosugestion, and it worked like a charm :obe:
This was actually my first induced LD :happy:
When I looked at my hands, they were really weird, my fingers were crossed and bent, like someone broke every bone in my hand. It was just the right hand that was distorted, but I wasn’t scared at all :happy:

YAY!!! Congrats imwhoim! I’m so happy for you!!! :hugs:

This is a good method. It’s the way I used to learn LD’ing. I wrote a long time ago a topic about this but it’s certainly in the archive now. By the way, you can search anything in your dreams. Now your hands are easier to find cause you always have them. :wink:

So, is there an explanation to the fact that our hands look abnormal in our dreams?
Not that I’m complaining or anything :tongue: this hand method is really starting to work for me and last night I was missing one finger on my right hand :whistle:

When I had a lucid dream a few nights back, I looked at my hands and I didn’t notice anything strange about them at all! The size was right, as was the number of fingers. Now I think that maybe, there was a slight bit more hair on them than there really is, but that’s not something that I noticed in my dream!

So why doesn’t it work for me? Could it be because I was already lucid?

No, It is because you havn’t convenced your SC that it should use your hands as a method to let you know your dreaming. :wink:
That is one part of the RC’s that often gets overlooked. The standard RC’s, like reading text, looking at clocks, looking at your hands, etc. work because we expect them to work, and for most people their SC doesn’t think it is necessary to make them 100% correct. There is no RC that works 100% of the time for 100% of the dreamers. Your SC can make everything perfect if it wants to. :eh: You need to work on teaching your SC to make the RC’s that you use work like you want them to. That is why one step in doing RC’s when you are awake is to imagen how it would be if you were dreaming. You are telling your SC what you want to happen when you are dreaming so that you can become lucid. :content:
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It’s not a subject about the hand RC. It’s a lucidity induction method. The goal is not noticing that your hands are strange or something like that. The goal is finding your hands in dreams and once you find them, however they look, you realize that you’re dreaming.

Topic merged into the hand method. It’s exactly the same topic cause the hand method comes from the ‘Don Juan technique’.

I’ve tried just about every trick I could think of: WILD, MILD, WBTB, lucid food, music/sound assocciation, meditation… I just couldn’t get a lucid dream.

But just this week I discovered this trick on the Lucid Dreaming article on Wikipedia that is simple and quite effective called ‘Don Juan’s Technique’.

First, I sit up in my bed and clean my mind of all distracting thoughts, focusing all my mind on my hands, which I hold out in front of me. In my mind, I constantly repeat to myself- “Later, when I am dreaming, I will look at my hands and realise that I am dreaming.”
I keep repeating it until I become tired/bored, and then turn the lights out and go to sleep, still focusing my mind on my hands and repeating the mantra in my head.

It was very successful- I had my first lucid dream just two days after doing so. When I was driving a car and I saw my hands on the steering wheel, I became lucid.

congrats for finding something that works for you ^_^. Maybe I’ll give it a try sometime