It's great your control improved, no matter the margin. This will boost your confidence in your dream control abilities which will in turn increase your dream control gradually. many other posters said believing and knowing play a major part in control. They are correct. Something i find, and have read about, that also helps is expecting. it might sound similar to both believing and knowing, and might even have elements of each. But what i am sure of is that IT WORKS. It has been my source of manipulation in many lucids. With this technique i have mastered TK, alchemy and flying(something i struggled with for months).
You said you tried telling yourself you could do it. That should work but it depends on how you do it. I also used verbal 'commands' to help influence the dream. I would say stuff like "Increase control to level five" at that level my TK was insane. I also repeated this a few times to cement it. Sometimes you don't have to even say commands but just use self suggestions. I used this to dilute conflicts and turn around nightmares. Once I was being chased by a wolf and when i became lucid i said to myself "But that's not a wolf, its a rabbit". Lo and behold when i turned to face the wolf it was instead a rabbit. I also EXPECTED it to be a rabbit.
There are a lot of factors that go into dream control and several techniques that can be spun from them. There is no limit to how you can achieve a specific task. Even if a certain technique is popular and GUARANTEED TO WORK it just might not. I personally experienced this when i was dealing with my flying. there were all sorts of techniques i tried like running and taking off, swimming, superman, imagine wings, pretend I'm lighter etc. I tried them all and none worked. You know how i managed to finally fly? I fell. I was chasing someone and fell. But instead of landing on my face i found i was hovering above the ground. I know it sounds like some fantasy BS but that's what happened. From then on whenever i wanted to fly i just lean to fall and take off, climbing into the sky, EXPECTING it would. When i became comfortable enough i didn't even need to expect anymore.
Like the others said start small. My first manipulation was changing the color of my room door. My first summoning was a painting on the wall. Just don't give up and find your own ways to manipulate your world because it is YOUR world and you automatically have influence on it, just believe and expect and try all sorts of crazy ideas. Happy dreaming
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