The Castaneda method?
Not exactly. I did start off loosely with some of his premises about lucid dreaming but did not follow his outline. Although I never did subscribe to the, "You are actually there", element of Castaneda.
You have to start somewhere taking command of the elements of your dreams. The forcing yourself to look at your hands is one of the earliest, and easiest (Though not easy by any means), that there is.