So I'm pretty good at lucid dreaming, been doing so on and off for years now. I remember finding this site a couple of years a go and reading about passive dream control: make up a story in the dream to explain why something is happening. Here is the issue, literally as I write this post I have just woken up from my lastest LD. I could tell that my level of clarity was high, reckon about 90%-95%. But it was so lucid (or would vivid be better here?) that when trying to fly I couldn't. Even when I dropped backwards onto the ground to test how lucid the dream was, I fell onto the road where cars were passing by and felt pain (slight) as my head hit the ground.

Pain in a dream?

I remember also trying to want to remove this DC for personal reasons because he was in the way of what I wanted to do. So he was driving me somewhere, I tried to make up a story that his car would break down and he would get killed by some random mugger

But, no matter how much I wanted it to happen, it never did! I ended up getting dropped off at some random place and he got away. I was like wtf

Seriously, what is going on here? Some LD's I have lots of dream control, but I reckon in retrospect that it must be to do with the level of lucditiy. One's where I'm struggling to keep control my myself and they seem rather hazzy and less fluid seem to be more easy to manipulate. Which makes no sense to me.

What went wrong here? Was I not believing hard enough?

Heck I even stopped some random DC's and asked, "Look, I know you're all DC's so can you please tell me why I can't control this dream well?

Their reply was something about me not believing because what I was asking for was too difficult to believe in. I should start off with easier things.

Hmmmm... that's a pretty good answer comming from a DC!

Well, I didn't think it was hard.

Thanks for reading this post, I know it seems like a rant, but I'm honestly open to suggestions!