If you have no control that doesnt mean that you are having a low level lucid dream... I've had very high awareness LDs where i had little or no control.

Your problems may stem from the inexperience or lack of belief... And conjuring something as simple as a sword may also prove difficult - I remember the first sword that I conjured, it constantly morphed and I attempted to compensate for that by making the blade longer or wider, but it still wasnt stable... in the end the sword turned into a cone of icecream.

But to conjure things you got to have 3 things in mind: Will for the item to appear, an Image of the item and confidence in your abilities.. If one component is lacking, it will be much harder to make items appear, and it may be pretty hard to focus on all 3 things..

There's another interesting phenomenon that is often manifest in my LDs - I have trouble producing weapons " just because" - if I'm attacked, it is extremely easy to manifest anything, even a gun in my hand stretched before me, but if I try to do the same thing with no danger, I'll most likely fail...