Its stupid in one way because you were looking for money in a dream but kind of smart in another. Since you could remeber things cost money. Normally in a dream I would just grab it because I would forget all about how things cost money heh.

By the way looking for money might work as good for prolonging a dream. I never tried it but I thought of picking up and moving around objects in a dream to help prolong it since spinning seems to fail a lot. Also helps when you go along with the dream, I think if you had spun or something, chances are it wouldnt of worked that time anyway.

I almost never do RC's. Some times I see a dream sign and I assume right away its a dream without even checking. Seems to work pretty good. Some people who do that say they mistake real life for dreaming but it only happens if really weird things happen or your doing drugs and stuff so I think I am pretty safe.