Last night I was having a dream about being chased by a dog and I thought to myself this is too weird it must be a dream. Then I went lucid but couldnt think of anything i wanted to do really so I just started playing video games. It was mario bros and the level would change every 5 seconds cause it was a dream and I stopped cause it was really annoying. Then I started thinking about how I was really laying in my bed and it instantly faded and i woke up.

What are self-verbal commands? Is that like saying your name in the dream? I tried that once and I remember I was in my house and the dream became so vivid and real even though I was lucid I had to perform another reality check. I ended up just walking around my house astonished that my mind was creating this.

The rubbing my hands thing never works cause in my dream I never see my body.