Thread: Castaneda's "Hands" technique Properly explained.

And like the telephone game, Castaneda's hand task has morphed into the popular hand rubbing technique, of which most people are ignorant of it's origins.

Originally Posted by Man of Shred

From Waking Nomad's dream:
Notice how he says NOTHING about looking at you hands to become lucid. He is saying, AFTER YOU BECOME LUCID, You must look at your hands. Why? so you can use your hands as a focus point to keep the dream from changing into something else. not as a Reality check.

I don't know about stopping it from changing, I think it could very well induce change. But a quick glance would be harmless enough. Possibly Castaneda was supposed to learn how directing his attention induced change, but it's hard to say for sure what Don Juan's intentions were. He was a wily old goat.