What you did then was not a reality check. Simply looking at your hands or holding your breath is not considered a reality check. Looking at your hands and expecting something strange about them, or holding your breath and expecting to breathe is a reality check. Get it? If you're not consciously looking for "off" things in the dream world, then your dream self will simply pass it on as common and you won't realize that you're dreaming.
As long as we're on the subject of reality checks, though, I think it's important to note that you might want to find your own RCs. Just because your best friend (for example) always becomes lucid after jumping up and down doesn't mean that you will. My own RC is the most effective that I have found so far, in fact, and that simply involves me expecting things to happen. For example, right after I finish writing this sentence, I am going to see a painting of a blue and pink giraffe. Nothing. And because I seen nothing, I am not dreaming.
However, if I look behind me and see one of those green pipes from the old Mario games, then I must be dreaming--I did this two times the other night, and both times I became lucid.
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