Well what I'm saying is that I seem to be having the opposite experience. With the "looking at hands" for example, it worked immediately - like the 2nd night after I read about it. I continued to focus on and use that one as long as I could. This decline was over a period of a couple months maybe. During the day I would be very much "aware" of them - extensively touching and examining them, contemplating every little detail and feeling. This just eventually stopped working at all as an LD trigger. My dream self just never looks at my hands anymore. The same has happened with all other techniques. It seems the more effort I put in the faster it declines from working to defunct.