If you see the hotdog finger it's because your fingers are too close or your eyes are crossed. Just arch your fingers together like Mr. Burns and then hold them like a foot away from your face. Then you know how when you're daydreaming you aren't really paying attention to what you're seeing? Not that you can't see, but just you're focused on mental images instead of what's in front of your eyes? It's a little like that. You look at your fingers, but try and look past them, like you're focusing on what's beyond them.

Then you start to see this white glow, right, around your fingers. Once you see it you should be able to adjust your vision so that your eyes can pick it up best. Then it will get real thick, almost like the picture, and you can move your fingers and it will move with them like a strand of bubblegum draped between your hands. If you have ideal lighting you can get all cat's cradle with it too, or make up balls. Also, if you pull out and then push it back in, the image gets bolder sort of. Zow! Zow zow ZOW!!