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Castaneda:The Art of Dreaming.
"Tonight, in your dreams, you must look at your hands." ...
"After a great effort, I indeed found hands in my dreams, but they never were mine. They were hands that only seemed to belong to me, hands that changed shape, becoming quite nightmarish at times. The rest of my dreams' content, nonetheless, was always pleasantly steady. I could almost sustain the view of anything I focused my attention on. It went on like this for months, until one day when my capacity to dream changed seemingly by itself. I had done nothing special besides my constant earnest determination to be aware that I was falling asleep and to find my hands".
Looking at the hands while dreaming is emphasized quite a bit in this technique he calls dreaming. Might be of interest. Free summary download here: http://www.prismagems.com/castaneda/donjuan9.html
ya, i'm aware of this technique. when i was trying to learn to lucid dream i did the same thing - train myself to look at my hands if i think i'm dreaming. hands area always shifting in some weird way which almost always makes me lucid right away cause it's pretty good proof i'm dreaming. (sometimes, they would be shifting and i had gotten so used to it i'd wonder if that was really a sign of dreaming, and it wouldn't work... i have a suspicion my body doesn't want me to lucid dream, as it always seem to work against my efforts to do so.)