Thread: A method someone told me about:

I have also read in other places about focusing on your hands to promote LDs. A method I use sometimes is to go to sleep grasping a golf ball size fire agate in each hand with fingers closed. The normal response is to let one's hand/fingers relax and open after falliing asleep so it takes some practice to keep your hands closed after falling to sleep. You could use any of several gemstones. The reason of course for the golf ball size is a precaution as one could for whatever reason put something from their hand into their mouth while sleeping/dreaming and that could lead to a problem!! Good luck with you LD pursuits.

Ive heard of this too. And ive become lucid this way a few times......

I've used it too, it made me lucid a few times. This technique works good for me because in dreams my hands look always weird.

Looking at your hands during the day and reminding yourself to become lucid when you see them in a dream was first developed by the Sufis in about 1300 AD and was the method used by Carlos Castaneda. I've never used it myself but think it is probably a very good technique.

I wake up in the middle of the night from some vivid normal dreams; why didn't I think to do an RC...because everything seemed normal at the time...

So I stay up for a few minutes thinking the next time I'm dreaming I'll remember to realize I'm dreaming. I lay down, and go to sleep...I'm in my room but feel like something isn't quite right; I've felt like this many times, thinking I'm really awake when I'm not...so I remember to RC.

I look at my hands, they look pretty real at first, then stat distorting, fingers growing/shrinking. Then I start growing extra fingers...I was seeing like a million fingers all at one time...

So I stand up. I have some kind of wand in my hand. I shake it real fast by my ear to see if I can hear it wooshing through the 'air'...yup...then I start feeling heat from it-I look at it and it turned into a lit punk(like for lighting fireworks).

So next I head off to find a mirror. I go into a room with a mirror covering the whole wall in front of me, and the wall to my left. So I go walk up to the corner and look into the mirror, staring at my face. It looked a lot more real than in other dreams where I look in mirrors...my face looked pretty much like me, but a little distorted. So I turn and look in the other mirror and see my face but with different distortions...so I just keep looking from mirror to mirror for a while....

Then I start thinking it'd be cool to walk through the mirror and be somewhere else. So I start focusing at the mirror trying to change the environment in it...but then I see the reflexion of my cat walking up. So I turn around and pick her up. But then she turns into evil kitty and is trying to kill me...wait, don't be scared, this is a dream, ou are in control of everything here...so I stop being scared for a couple minutes but forget to spin to change the dream...and it got worse and I woke up...