First Lucid but no control?

This is very weird. I actually have a LD with my own, self made method!

Anyways, back to the dream. Long story short, I tried to shoot a chain out of my hands, (It was the first thing that came to mind.) and nothing happened. I tried to make a chain shoot out again, but nothing happened! I remember reading on this forum that you can't just expect the chain to come after your hand, you have to make it happen. I concentrated hard on making a chain fly out of my hand. Nothing. Then I decided to do something more simple, so I told myself if I close my eyes, try to summon a lamp, when I opened my eyes the lamp would be there. Bad idea, because as soon as I opened my eyes, I was awake, with my eyes closed, so I thought to perform a DEILD and almost instantly entered another dream, but it was like a spongebob screen saying with a text that kept changing:
- Subconscious, asleep.
- Semi Conscious!
- Waking up!
- Fully awake!
- You lose!

Help?

Using expectation is a horrible lie perpetrated by those with no understanding of control.

http://www.dreamviews.com/f14/nature...control-57283/

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Originally Posted by The Cusp

Using expectation is a horrible lie perpetrated by those with no understanding of control.

http://www.dreamviews.com/f14/nature...control-57283/

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Your post is relatively useless, I learned nothing on how to control powers in my dreams from your post.

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Originally Posted by skullgunner1

Your post is relatively useless, I learned nothing on how to control powers in my dreams from your post.

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Well he did link to you a guide on Dream Control that seems to be Aton of help.

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Originally Posted by Mirui987

Well he did link to you a guide on Dream Control that seems to be Aton of help.

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His whole tutorial didn't even mention my problem...

*Grabs horse by the lips and pries it's mouth open"

Drink goddamit! Drink!