Got this idea today, and am in the process of trying it out. Please note that I am only refering to mild pain that is not dangerous, so, please, nobody wimp out at the title.

My idea is a simply one. Though my lucid dreaming frequency is improving, I have never been able to do reality checks in my dreams, except accidentally (happen to see hands, happen to flick a light switch).

My idea is that nothing anchors quite like pain, so why not use some (relatively) mild pain to try to induce lucid dreaming?

Today, I stuck a pin against the palms of my hands, not hard enough to break the skin, but hard enough to cause mild pain. While I did this (for a few seconds) I concentrated on seeing my hands while dreaming to do reality checks.

Curious if anyone has ever tried anything similar, and what the results were.