Ignoring control?

[Ithil]

Hello again everybody. So, I started to try to LD at about the beginning of the year (had been trying for the last years but not too seriously) though I have to admit I kinda gave up reality checking and writing dreams in the middle of the night. I had one LD in February and one in March, and 3 false awakenings in a row a few weeks ago. I have a problem though, and it's really annoying. Sorry for opening a new topic, I didn't post here a lot but I read it a lot, and don't remember reading anything similar. So, in some dreams (it does happen pretty often) I kind of know that it's a dream (I'm not exactly sure how to explain this) I mean I know I have some kind of control over everything around me, and I do influence things. For example one time there was my dog (he died) and I knew he was back, I knew it wasn't real but I said I can enjoy it anyway and I can see him when I want. It wouldn't be so bad, except that many times I just dream about something, and I know it's not real, so I just imagine for example how someone does something and then they do it, but I never think "Oh, it's a dream, I could do so much more than this". It feels like I'm just ignoring the fact that it's a dream and I can change everything and control it, and instead I just change small things that don't matter. I don't know if I explained it well though, but it's so annoying. After I wake up I know I missed it and it feels like I wasted that dream by doing unimportant things. Did anything similar happen to anybody or do you people know what I could do about it?

[Unelias]

I often have this too. I have pretty good control of the events in my regular dreams. However, the fun in LD is the realization and the way the dream shifts after that. You cannot achieve that good of a control without turning it LD.

[Ithil]

Thanks for the reply, I know what you're talking about because I had 2 short LDs and they were so much better, but it's so annoying how I always know something is wrong/not real and never bother to think that it might be a LD.

[taylor]

This is my problem too. I have dream goals, and i'm constantly thinking about them. But when I enter a LD it's like I block them out or something.