Bendrummin58, I understand that you feel very happy of finding your hands in a dream… but please, please don’t post the same question in every thread you find ! … so I haven’t to answer the same thing in many threads.
Anyhow, my answer will better find its place here :
It’s very funny that everybody here I told about this method thinks : “Uh ? How the hell could it work ?” : it works, and very well.
In my opinion, it’s a sort of MILD, and perhaps more clever than MILD, because in MILD, the only thing you have is a kind of fuzzy goal ( to be lucid, but when you begin, you damn don’t know what it is ). But here, the goal is obvious : find your hands in your dreams. As you understood it, the intention of being lucid, though it is not explicitly formulated, is attached with the actionof searching something in a dream. Your hands become a dreamsign yet.
Sentient, of course, you found your hands many times in your dreams, but didn’t become lucid, cause your intention was not focused on finding your hands. On this point, BenDrumming58’s answer was very clear.
This technique is not a brand new technique : it has been first published in 1972 and a lot of the most famous lucid dreamers used it or even learned LD with it. It has been the theme of a S. Laberge’s experiment. A lot of threads or DD on LD4all mention it. I posted it there because it will be more easy to find for beginners.
Last thing : Sentient, you’re right, there is nothing special in the hands. You can try to find anything else in your dreams. Here is the excerpt of the “Journey to Ixtlan” where it’s told about this method :
=> PS : Sentient, do you explain the Awareness Conditioning somewhere ?