Well, I'm not really going to kick his behind. First because he is no longer around, and second because his technique has worked many times in the past.

I am a fairly experienced lucid dreamer. I have probably had around a hundred lucid dreams at various levels. I had been going through a dry spell recently, as I was emotionally and physically exhausted. Also, I had been using choline bitartrate for a long time, and wanted to see how well I could lucid dream without it.

So, last night was the first time in perhaps six weeks that I had a lucid dream. I won't relate the dream itself, as it is unimportant in this context (though a very interesting dream) but I will say that I started to feel that things were weird, so I looked at my hands. They were perfectly normal.

I have had this happen before, and was still not sure whether I was dreaming, so I shut my eyes for a few seconds and looked again. This time, I think the left thumb is a little short, but this is not enough to convince me I am dreaming. So I put the two thumbs next to each other to measure them. Sure enough, the left thumb is a little fat and maybe half an inch too short. What would have happened then, I am not sure, as i wake up. I almost forget the lucid dream.

As I said, I'm counting this as lucid, since I had and maintained the level of consciousness necessary to keep questioning whether it was a dream, but I never had a hand reality check fail before. Usually I get long, skinny fingers, or fingers of different lengths or numbers, and sometimes even transparent fingers, but never a situation in which the fingers stayed so stubbornly normal.

One thing is that I have been doing ten hand reality checks a day pretty religiously for almost a year. Is it possible I'm just burned out on this type of reality check? I've seen normal hands in the daylight so often that they are burned into my memory, and will no longer appear strange?

Any other suggestions for daily reality checks? I probably won't try flying off buildings.