If you knew you were dreaming and just had poor control, yeah, like Mancon said, that's normal and just takes practice.
Or did you mean that you didn't feel like you actually knew you were dreaming? That's normal too before actually having a real LD -- dreaming about subject matter (in this case LDing) that seeps into our minds all day and then we make dreams out of at night. I mean, when the girl was saying you were dreaming did you believe it or was it just part of the dream plot?