Over controlling?

I don't know if this happens to anyone else, but when I'm dreaming, I'll be trying to do something like play a song, and it won't work and the more I think about it , the more it won't work. Is that just stress like leaking into my dreams? I dream about math problems too. . . . .

Expectations shape the outcome. You expect it not to work and therefore it doesn't...

are these dreams lucid? If they are, how long have you had lucid dreams?

I think they are. . . . sorry i'm being pretty ambiguous, but I'm not quite sure if they are lucid dreams or not. I've always been able to control my dreams and it wasn't until last year that I found out that not everyone can do that. I can usually control them I should say, not always, like when I'm stressed about things, then I can't control those very well. Like swim meets, (I coach and swim) I have dreams before one and it'll be me jumping off the block and swimming the whole race underwater but never going anywhere. But doing kung fu, I rock.I can always block anything, and I can corner people with like 2 moves. It's weird.