A better method is to simply look at your hand and count yo…
A better method is to simply look at your hand and count your fingers. In a dream, you never have exactly five fingers. So when counting six or seven or even spoons as fingers, you become aware that you are dreaming. [C5/8/14]
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are you serious? why you wonder when you are dreaming?
If the goal is to contact the subconscious why not do it while conscious? instead of trying to invoke the conscious while it is getting a break?
You train by counting your fingers in every "wtf-situation" while you are awake. This is subconsciously transferred into the dream, so that "wtf-situations" also lead to finger counting.
But in a dream you never have 5 fingers, so you realize that it must be a dream.
When you realize this, you either wake up or start a lucid dream.
If we were to consider the subconscious as an entity of its own, the goal would be to take away its control over the dream content.
However, this only works if one becomes conscious during the dream and does not wake up.
That is, if you are afraid, they will be scary, if you are happy, they will be friendly. Control your feelings, then you control your subconscious.
But the subconscious doesn't disappear. It's still working on creating dream content, but it doesn't control you anymore. Other beings/persons in the dream who you may encounter are under the control of the subconscious.