Thread: Control, major sticking point countless ld's later

So I've had quite a lot of LD's since I've become a member here, just had probably my 5th wild and my 8th LD of 2008 (almost once a week). My main sticking point however is getting CONTROL, I simply cant do it as well as I want.

Most of my lucid dreams come from false awakenings so they usually start out in my bedroom and i've decided to quarantene myself to my bedroom until I can get control down very well.

In this most recent WILD that occurred about an hour or two ago during a nap I noticed that I had to keep my eyes very wide open and whenever they started to droop is when I felt like I was losing sight of the dream. My room was dark and I kept trying to say stuff like 'Light ON' and snapping my fingers but nothing happened. Went to the light switch, no go obviously and I kept saying the same thing 'Light ON' with more conviction but failed to get any results.

Any tips for gaining more control? I've tried countless things, dropping to my knee's and rubbing my hands together (done that in at least 10+ ld's), examining things up close (done that at in at least 8-10 different ld's) and saying 'I Am god, I control everything" (done that about 3 times and had better success with getting lights to come on). I've also tried spinning in at least 5 different ld's and I feel spinning just resets me into another false awakening or resets the LD.

anyone have any other tips? I've been constantly playing around with it but for keeping and maintaining control I just haven't had the success I've wanted.

edit - as for just believing you can do it, I think that may help however I've never had any problem with flying. I've flown in countless LD's and i'd say the hardest its been I'd jump up once, come back down and then jump up again and take off...