Hiya - I tried this method about 3 nights ago and had some success - I imagined, as you suggested, clapping my hands, and after a few minutes I emerged into a dream scene of being in a car with a female DC (unfortunately not a cow girl ) still clapping my hands ! The female DC turned to me and looked at me oddly saying 'why are you clapping' and stupidly (being only semilucid now and feeling kind of awkward explaining lucidity and feeling stupid clapping in the car) I made up 'because my hands are cold!' stupid eh! I could feel my brain making up the excuse, amazing how our brains try and explain every oddity in our dreams to try and make sense of it.anyways as I re-asserted my lucidity I lost the dream into the void (and blew the task of the month - yelling out 'whats your middle name' but she'd gone).

anyway your technique worked! so thank you