Thread: Castaneda and The Hand Method

I've decided to try Carlos Castaneda's "finding your hands" method of attaining lucidity.
If somebody has done this successfully, might you detail the specifics of your process? How long you looked at your hands, what went through your mind, or how you knew you were dreaming when you finally found them in the dream world?

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=26419 You might wanna check ranma's journal, or PM him. I haven't read it in depth and I'm not sure how much success he has had with it, but I know that he was trying exactly this.

I'm not sure whether this method will work for you, but it certainly didnt work pretty well with me (I can only recall one LD induced with this technique).

I guess it´s true when don Juan claims that energy is necessary in order to dream (LD).

I tried it many years ago, never managed to get lucid using it, closest I got was dreaming I was looking at the hands on a clock, while trying really hard to remember why I had to look at them. LOL
I like Don Juan's methods though - notice how he never mentions anything about realising your dreaming, he goes straight to find your hands and look at a few things in secession until you can sustain the scene. He would avoid the main issue.

OK the one time i tried this it really freaked me out. I had slowly looked down at my hands after semi-realizing i was dreaming because I obviously remembered the technique... but after looking at them everything around me became much more clear... and not only that, but the person I was with who was normal before then, suddenly became evil and when I told them I knew I was dreaming it seemed to infuriate them, and then I kicked their ass.

I've looked at my hands in lucid dreams...aside from noticing an extra finger that liked to dart in and out of my hand, nothing really changed. However, I didn't look away and back, away and back, away and back, like he wants you to. You could use any object in the dream other than your hands (according to what Don Juan said) and it would be just as effective. The only reason he chose to say hands was because I suppose hands tend to stay in the dream longer than other things. Looking at a table might be hard, cause if you look away and back it might be gone.

It seems like the hand rubbing technique, the key is to focus on something in your dream that you would rarely, if ever, see changed in the dreamworld. That way your mind stays focus on the dream rather than overtly controlling the dream.