Thread: Castaneda's "Hands" technique Properly explained.

From Waking Nomad's dream:

"You ever read Castaneda?"

"Yeah some."

"I haven't, but he said to look at your hands. My hands look normal."

"Yeah. That RC, doesn't always work."

"That's why I like to kill myself to RC."

ARRRGHHHHHH! I am pulling my hair out here. Castaneda's book about looking at hands in dreaming is SO mis interpreted it's not even funny. I Notice how 99.9 percent of people who read that think that Don juan meant "Look at your hands to do a reality check." Arghhh! I've read the books enough times to know that you will NEVER Read that line coming out of Don juan's mouth.

Let me quote from my book.

"To set up Dreaming means to have a precise and practical command over the general dream situation. For example, You may dream that you are in your classroom. To set up dreaming means that you don't let the dream slip into something else.... ...you control the view of the classroom and don't let it go until you want to....

... Of course it's possible. This control is no different from the control we have over an situation in our daily lives... ... In order to get use to it for yourself, you must start by doing something very simple. Tonight, in your dreams, you must look at your hands." - P. 21

Notice how he says NOTHING about looking at you hands to become lucid. He is saying, AFTER YOU BECOME LUCID, You must look at your hands. Why? so you can use your hands as a focus point to keep the dream from changing into something else. not as a Reality check.