I’ve had several dream experiences with dream signs such as putting my finger through the other hand or looking at my hands or trying to turn on a light switch but can’t. The thing is these events seem to happen before I read about using them as a technique to go lucid. I guess it could be that I did read about these techniques previously but it doesn’t seem that way. It’s disappointing because there is this obvious dream sign right in front of me and I still don’t recognize it enough to get more lucid. Advice?
Don’t be too hard on yourself. I think that sometimes your mind will need and want to remain nonlucid. That’s all right. The seed of crossing over from lucidity to nonlucidity in dreams in planted in there, and if your unconscious is secure in cooperating with the waking conscious mind, then it’ll happen naturally.