I had problems with finger through hand when i was a beginner. But i changed to counting fingers and it works 9/10 times usually have 6-8 fingers in a dream.
My method was to check how many fingers I have, and it worked (sometimes I had 12 fingers) but after a while it stopped working for some reason. The finger through hand used to also used to be a favoured RC of mine but it can be unreliable.
My favourite method now is the nose pinch RC, where you pinch your nose and try to breath without using your mouth. It has never failed for me since.
Haha, didn’t know about the pulling fingers trick.
I mostly get my Lucid’s when I false awoke. And once I though there were weird coulors on the door… I though " Wow, that’s weird… Is this a dream? " Then I did a reality check by breathing while holding my nose and mouth. Guess, what… I didn’t work…
And some weeks ago it worked…
Geeh… My mind just outsmarts these tricks… I need to come with something new everytime, haha. xD
I used to count my fingers as RC. But I think it takes “too much time” and already read many people who said it has failed at least once.
I like to use the nose RC, it’s simple, fast and never failed to me.
I remember a dream that I was afraid of losing lucity and started walking with my hands in my nose doing the RC everytime. That was a little too much, i think. hahaha