I was looking at another lucid dreaming board, and I read a topic about someone who was having trouble gaining control in their lucid dreams. Basically, he couldn't do things like fly or use telekinesis in his lucid dreams, no matter how he tried, but when he talked to one of his dream characters about this, they told him to throw something against the wall, and told him that it woudl temporarily dent the wall. He threw something, and the wall dented and reformed (Obviously somethign that wouldn't ahppen in real life).

Anyway, I realised this was similar to an experience I've had in a semi-lucid dream, where I couldn't directly control things, but a genie could teleport me to and from a room.

Basically, my theory is that you migth eb able to use your dream characters to help you accomplish things in semi-lucid dreams. I think that perhaps if you're having trouble getting control in lucid dreams, it's because your mind is telling you that you can't do something like that, but if you get confirmation from a dream character that you can do something, then you'll be able to. I haven't tested this theory yet, but I've sugegsted it to a few people.

Anyway, tell me what you think about it.