If you're able to carry the intention of performing a check into dreaming, that's good. The next thing you might like to look at improving if you're not already, is really being deliberate about your checking, regardless of whether it's in waking life or in dreaming. When you do a check, think about the situation you're in and think about what (if anything) seems off.
I had dreams like these a lot when I first started getting an interest in lucidity, where I had odd numbers of fingers or different colours for my hands and didn't realise that I was dreaming, largely because I did not then confirm it via another type of check or because I didn't think enough about my situation. That said, every night and every dream can be different and the amount of clarity of mind we have isn't always the same, so if you meet with this obstacle again despite better efforts, do take that into account too.
Lucidity is not common for me, though I can say that having at least two checks of different types does feel helpful when it comes to "confirming" the dream nature (or not) of what's being experienced. Personally for my day practise, I like to check solidity of hands by pushing fingers through the other palm and I like to also try reading something if it's present and double and triple checking what I read, otherwise I try breathing through a pinched nose, too. It sounds like putting your hands together is generally working okay for you, so I suppose try that and at least some other check that you like.
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